WHAT IS A BIBLIOGRAPHY?

A list of books, articles,

Internet sites

you used during research!

Whenever you write a

bibliography, use a guide!!

• Your “LRG”

(Language Resource Guide)

• Library website bib guide!

PUTTING YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHY TOGETHER…

• ALPHABETIZE the list of your resources

• Title the bibliography page WORKS CITED

• Double space the list

• Indent the second line & following of each

source cited (five spaces or use tab key)

ENCYCLOPEDIA (General): Author of article Last Name, First Name (if author listed).   “Title of

article.” Name of Encyclopedia.  Copyright date.

TRY ON YOUR OWN…

Here’s an encyclopedia article, from the World Book Encyclopedia called “Scotland.” The author’s name listed is A.S. Mather. The World Book Encyclopedia is copyrighted 2000.

CREATE THE CITATION!

ENCYCLOPEDIA (General): Author of article Last Name, First Name (if author listed).   “Title of

article.” Name of Encyclopedia.  Copyright date.

Mather, A.S.. “Scotland.” World Book

Encyclopedia. 2000.

TRY ANOTHER…

This is an Internet site. The title of the article is “Personal Histories” (appears as title of webpage). The website is United States Holocaust museum.Look closely at the picture here for the Internet address. CREATE THE CITATION!

INTERNET: Author of article (if listed). "Title of the

article."  Name of site . Date accessed - Day

Month Year <Internet address (URL)>.

INTERNET: Author of article (if listed). "Title of the article."  Name of site . 

Date accessed - Day Month Year <Internet address (URL)>.

“Personal Histories.” United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum. 26 Sept. 2006

<www.ushmm.org>.

BOOKS WITH ONE AUTHOR:Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of

Book. City of Publication: Name of

Publisher, Copyright date.

One more…Here’s a book. You can get most of the information you need from the cover. Also know that the publisher is “Little, Brown, and Company,” the copyright date is 1998, and the city of publication is New York.

CREATE THE CITATION!

BOOKS WITH ONE AUTHOR:Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication:

Name of Publisher, Copyright date.

Christopher, Matt. On the Course with Tiger

Woods. New York: Little, Brown, and Company,

1998.

WORKS CITED

Bamberger, Michael. “Her Best Shot.” Sports Illustrated. 2 June 2003: 52 - 54.

Christopher, Matt. On the Course with Tiger Woods. New York: Little, Brown,

and Company, 1998.

Lincoln, Eric. “Golf.” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 25 Feb. 2004

<www.gme.grolier.com>.

Mather, A.S.. “Scotland.” World Book Encyclopedia.

Nicklaus, Jack, and Ken Bowden. My Story. New York: Simon and Schuster,1997.

“Old Course.” St. Andrews Links Trust. 25 Feb. 2004 <www.standrews.org.uk>.

Zibel, Brooke. “Ben Hogan.” Great Athletes. Editors of Salem Press. Vol 3.

Hackensack: Salem Press, Inc., 2002. 1206 – 1208.