A bibliography gives the titles of the resources used as well as the names of the authors and the publishers.  It also gives the place and date of publication.

 

Your bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order using the author’s surname.  If the author is not given use the 1^st word (but not “the”, “an” or “a”) of the title.

 

There are many ways of presenting information in a bibliography  The following guides are those preferred at P.H.S. When you are compiling a bibliography, please follow these formats - including the punctuation given.  The titles should either be underlined or written in italics.

 

Book

Author’s surname, author’s first name  Year of publication,  Title of book, publisher, place published.

 

 

e.g.            Jennings, Paul  1990,  Unbearable, Puffin, Ringwood.

 

 

If no author is given, the date should be written after the title.

 

 

e.g.       The Macquarie Dictionary  1987, 2^nd rev edn, The Macquarie Library, Macquarie University.

 

Periodicals

 

Author’s surname, author’s first name  Year of publication,  “Title of article,” Name of magazine, volume, issue, page no(s).

 

 

e.g.       Skow, John  1995,  “Dead-serious protesters,”  Time, no. 37,   

            p. 36.

Newspapers

Author’s surname, author’s first name  Year of publication,  “Title of article,” Name of newspaper, date of newspaper, page no.

 

 

e.g.       Stott, Diane  1998,  “Trade rocked by Asian turmoil,”  The Sydney             Morning Herald, 5 May, p. 1.

If no author is given entry is by title of article.

 

e.g.       “Sailors hit me: protester,”  1998,  The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May, p. 3.    

CD-ROM

Author’s surname, author’s first name  Year of publication,  “Title of article,”  Title of CD-ROM,  edition  [CD-ROM] Publisher, Place published.

e.g.            Abrahams, Harold Maurice  1997,  “Olympic games,”  Britannica CD, Version 97 [CD-ROM]  Encyclopaedia Britannica.

”Olympic games,” 1995,  Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia,  World English Edition  [CD-ROM]  Microsoft Corporation.

 

 

 

World Wide Web (WWW)

 

Author’s surname, author’s first name  date of website update,  “Title”  Title of complete work [online] URL (Accessed date of visit to website).

 

 

e.g.            Alexander, Jan & Tate, Marsha  8 August 1996, “Evaluating web resources”  A modular approach to teaching the world wide web  [online] http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm  (Accessed 4 May, 1998).

 

Some websites do not have all the details required e.g. there may be no author’s name

or revision date.  In these cases start with the title and give as much detail as you can

 

e.g.       “Fish identification page”  Rex Hunt fishing adventures  [online]              http://www.rexhunt.com.au/fishid/default.htm (Accessed 4 May 1998).

 

 

 

E-mail

Author’s surname, author’s first name   e-mail address of sender,   “Subject” [online] e-mail to  e-mail address of recipient, date message was sent.

 

 

e.g.       Brook, C. abcd@ozemail.com.au “Bibliography” [online] e-mail to             student@ozemail.com.au, 4 May 1998.

 

 

NOTE:  If you do not wish to disclose the personal e-mail addresses, you should identify the source as follows:

 

 

            Brook, C. “Bibliography” [online] Personal e-mail, 4 May 1998.