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Bibliography Form

Every time you use a book, article, or web site to help you find facts for something you are writing, you must have a "bibliography." A bibliography is a list of all your sources. This helps your reader look for more information if they like your topic, and it gives credit to other people for the work they did. It also makes it easy to see that you did not copy your words from somebody else, which is called "plagiarism." You'll be putting a bibliography in every paper you write from now on.

Here's how you write the list:

Format for books:

Name of the author, last name first.
Title of the book, underlined.
Place of publication (usually a city)
Publisher
Year of publication

So a listing for a book would be:

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, New York: Scholastic, 2000

Format for Internet sources:

Name of the author, last name first.
Title of the page, in quotations.
Title of the whole Web site, underlined (if different from the page title)
Date of the page or of the latest update
Date accessed
URL (the whole thing)

So a citation for my web site would be (if I looked at it today when I'm writing this):

Turner, Delia Marshall, "Dr. Turner, Science Teacher," July 12, 2000, accessed July 12, 2000, http://www.dmturner.org/teacher/index.html

Format for an interview with a person:

"Interview with," followed by:

1. Name of person
2. Person's occupation (in other words, why they are a resource)
3. Date of interview

So if you interviewed Mr. Baroody about being a Lower School Head, a citation would read:

Interview with Richard Baroody, Head of Lower School, February 15, 2003

This page last updated April 23, 2003