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Writing a Bibliography: General Form
A
bibliography
is an alphabetical listing of the sources you used in writing your paper. Your bibliography must include
all
the sources that appear in your
footnotes
or
endnotes. However, do not include all of the sources you looked at in the course of your research. If your bibliography is a long one (say, more than twenty items), you should separate it into categories such as
primary sources, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, and nonprinted sources such as tables, illustrations, and
Web pages.
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A bibliography is alphabetized according to the last name of the author.
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If a work has no author (or editor, or translator), alphabetize it according to the first word (except for
A, An,
and
The) of the title.
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Begin each bibliographic entry at the left-hand margin, and
indent any additional lines five spaces.
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Each item in a bibliography is single-spaced with double-spacing between items.
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The form used for writing a bibliographical item is different from the form used for writing a footnote or an endnote. For footnote and endnote form, see
How to Write a Footnote or an Endnote for a Book.
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For example, in a bibliography the author's last name comes first. For other differences, see the next screen.
Next: Writing a Bibliography: Entries for Books