Building a Bibliography
Every essay needs a list of books and other sources that you used to research your topic. This lists is known (at least in history) as a BIBLIOGRAPHY.
All your sources should be listed in your bibliography in alphabetical order by the author's last name.
Books
Any book in your bibliography needs to have the following information:
- Author's last name
- Author's first name
- Book Title
- City of Publication
- Publisher
- Date of Publication
Smith, Tom. I Love Penguins! Toronto: Penguin Press, 2009.
Magazines/Articles
For articles in magazines and other places, you need to list:
- Author's last name
- Author's first name
- Title of the article
- Title of the magazine
- Date of the magazine (or the Volume and Issue if appropriate)
- Pages that the article took in the magazine (such as 11-19)
Smith, Tom. "Aren't Penguins Cool?" The Penguin Magazine. March 2009. 13-18.
Websites
For any websites you use, you need to indicate:
- Author of the webpage with the last name followed by the first name (if it's shown. It usually isn't).
- Title of the page.
- Complete URL/address
- Date you last consulted the site.
I Love Penguins! www.penguinspenguins.com. Sept. 22, 2009.
Other Things to Things About
- Magazine, book and website titles should be underlined or italicized.
- Articles or single webpage titles should be put in quotation marks.
- If your entry is longer than one line, the second line should be indented. This is called a hanging indent and can be found in Word under the Format-Paragraph-Indents and Spacing.
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