WHY MUST YOU DO A BIBLIOGRAPHY?
Some reasons:
1. To acknowledge and give credit to sources of words, ideas, diagrams, illustrations, quotations borrowed, or any materials summarized or paraphrased.
2. To show that you are respectfully borrowing other people’s ideas, not stealing them.
3. To offer additional information to your readers who may wish to further pursue your topic.
4. To give readers an opportunity to check out your sources for accuracy. An honest bibliography inspires reader confidence in your writing.
5. Your teacher insists that you do a bibliography or marks will be deducted.
How to do a Bibliography
Items in a bibliography are alphabetically ordered by author; and, if no author, then by title.
WEBSITE:
Author of page, last name first, followed by a period. Title of page in quotes, followed by a period. Title of the entire website, underlined, followed by a period. The date the site was created, last maintained or- if neither are given- accessed. The full URL address of the page, beginning with http:// (do NOT end with a period).
BOOK:
Author's name, last name first, followed by a period. Title underlined, followed by a period. Publishers name, followed by a comma. Copyright date, followed by a period.
Morgan, Terri. Photography Take your Best Shot. Lerner, 1991.
ENCYCLOPEDIA/REFERENCE ARTICLE:
Title of the article in quotation marks, followed by a period. Title of encyclopedia, underlined, followed by a period. Volume Number followed by a comma, Publication Date follwed by a comma, and the pages used.
"Vietnam." Compton's Encyclopedia. Volume 8, 1992, pages 130-133.