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What is a bibliography? Bibliography is a catalog of precise citations for number of sources on a topic. "Bibliography generally attaches itself to qualifying adjectives like Enumerative, Analytical,and Descriptive. The two main types of bibliography are: Enumerative bibliograph and Analytical bibliography."
Enumerative bibliography: is a short listing of the author’s name, the book’s title, and date and place of publication. Enumerative bibliography it has another name and its called Systematic bibliography. An example of an Enumerative bibliography is a library card and what it's written in the back of the book. The Enumerative bibliography gives little information of the main aspects of the book like: Document, brand, illustrations or essential.
Analytical bibliography: is the opposite of an Enumerative bibliography because an Analytical bibliography gives you all the information like physical objects, The construction, fabricate technique on the text. Analytical bibliography it’s also called Critical bibliography it may be divided into more than a few types.
Descriptive bibliography: it gives you a lot of information like describes the source, what it is a book, website, magazine article, journal article etc. Who created it, how long it is, what it contains. Descriptive bibliography are book that give full physical descriptions. Descriptive bibliography does not exist for all fields and for all periods it concentrates in the earlier periods of bookmaking because a chronological understanding of the structure of books is essential.
Examples of citations you can use for your bibliography
A book APA Format:
Schwartz, D. (1938). In dreams begin responsibilities. Norfolk, CT: New Directions.
MLA Format:
Schwartz, Delmore. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938.
A Magazine Article:
APA Format:
McCallum, J. (2001, August 20). Life after death. Sports Illustrated, 95(70), 70-82.
MLA Format:
McCallum, Jack. "Life After Death." Sports Illustrated 20 August 2001: 70-82.
A Journal Article:
APA Format:
Kondro, W. (2002, July 6). Low profile for health at Kananaskis G8 summit. Lancet, 360(9326), 61.
MLA Format:
Kondro, Wayne. "Low profile for health at Kananaskis G8 summit." Lancet 360.9326 (2002): 61. A bibliography always goes at the end of a paper. The bibliography is to give the sources from where you got your information and it may be place in alphabetical order. The bibliography is an important part of your paper because without it the professor may think that you paper was a plagiarism. It’s important to have a bibliography when you do a paper so the professor can go and look at it and make sure that you didn’t plagiarize.
Sources:
University albany (1994 -2005). creating an annotated
bibliography. Retrieved from Web site:
http://library.albany.edu/usered/style/ann.html#annotate
Belanger, T (2003 febraury 18). Descriptive bibliography.
Retrieved from , Web site:
htt://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm
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