A bibliography is an alphabetical list of all sources used in an essay or research paper. It gives credit to ideas and materials borrowed from other sources to avoid plagiarism. A bibliography shows sources were not stolen but borrowed, and proves the work is not plagiarized. It also provides additional information for readers who want to learn more. Teachers require bibliographies and will deduct points from grades without one. The document provides examples of bibliographic citations for different source types like books, websites, encyclopedia articles, and magazines. It demonstrates the basic bibliographic format of indenting lines after the first and using italics for titles.

2. 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. What is a bibliography?

3. 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. Why must you do a bibliography?

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Basic format for a bibliography. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Lets practice doing a bibliographic entry!

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