A bibliography is an alphabetical list of all the sources you have used for

an essay or research paper. You list your sources in a

specific format.

1. To give credit to sources of words, ideas,

diagrams, illustrations, quotations borrowed,

or any materials summarized or paraphrased.2. To show that you are borrowing other

people’s ideas not stealing them. To prove

that you are not plagiarizing.

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when someone steals and passes off the ideas or words of another as their own.

Ex.: If you copy a classmate’s homework and turn it in as if you had done it on your own.

3. To offer additional information to your

readers who may wish to read more about

your topic.

4. Your teacher insists that you do a bibliography or points will be deducted from your grade.

For each source listed, begin first line at margin

and indent each line that follows six spaces. Underline or use italics for tiles of books, periodicals

and software. Titles of articles are enclosed in

quotation marks. If required information, such as author or place of

publication, is not available, just leave it out. Arrange all sources in one list, alphabetically by

first word, which will be either the author’s last

name or the first important word of the title.

Example of bibliographic citation for a book:

Stuart, Gene S.

Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Washington, D.C.:

National Geographic Society,

1990.

Author (last name), First.

Title.

Place of Publication:

Publisher.

Date.

Example of bibliographic citation for an internet site:

Bradshaw, Gary S. “Wilbur and Orville Wright.”

Oct. 1996 <URL:http:/www.wam.umd.edu/

~srwright/WrBr/Wrights.html

Try to find as much information as possible about an Internet document to determine whether it is accurate or not. It is especially important to try to find

out about the author of an Internet document, whether a person,

organization or institution.

Example of bibliographic citation for an article in an

encyclopedia:

Johnson, Thomas E. “Wilbur and Orville Wright.”

Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia. 2000.

Example of bibliographic citation for an article in an

magazine:

Begley, Sharon. “The Wright Brothers.”

Newsweek 4 Oct. 1982: 74

Sample Bibliography:

Begley, Sharon. “The Wright Brothers.” Newsweek

Oct.4, 1982: 74

Bradshaw, Gary S. “Wilbur and Orville Wright.” Oct.1996

<URL:http/:/www.wam.umd.edu/~srwright/WrBr/Wrights.html>

Johnson, Thomas E. “Wilbur and Orville Wright.”

Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia. 2000 ed.

Stuart, Gene S. Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Washington, D.C.:National Geographic Society,

1990.

Lets practice doing a

bibliographic entry!

Caterpillars – Friend or Foe? Was published by Sly McRitter, Inc., a Chicago company in 1979. It was written by Cree P. Crawley.

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