Creating Bibliographies

A guide to being a Citation Creating Master!

6th Grade LibraryMrs. Dix

What is a Bibliography?

A bibliography is an alphabetized list of all the books, magazines, websites, photos, etc. that you used in your research report. It should be the last page of your report.

What’s the big deal? Not saying where you found your information is academically dishonest and is plagiarism.

Hard to make? Not at all!

What is a Citation?

Citations are bits and pieces of data arranged just so to give proper credit to where you found your photos, quotes, research information, etc.

Several Citations = One Bibliography

Getting Started

There are 2 approaches you can take:

1. Work on your bibliography throughout the research report – every time you find a new book, quote or bit of information, add the citation.

2. Gather all your notes at the end of the process and enter your data one at a time. Just be sure to save enough time – 8:10am on the day it is due is NOT the time to start!

2 Great Tools

These 2 tools will do all the work for you. We’ll experiment with each one and then you can decide which to use for your science report

3 Tragic Pitfalls

1. You forget to use capitalization – this is not a text message! It matters!

2. You don’t leave enough time to get this done – rushing this will stress you out!

3. You are not careful taking notes and now can’t remember where you found the information! Help!

Let’s Take a Look at easybib.com

easybib Step 1: Visit URL

easybib Step 2: Login

easybib Step 3: Select the source

easybib Step 4: Add your info – try the ISBN Autocite!

easybib Step 5: Now Add More!

easybib Step 5: Review Info & Create

easybib Step 7: Download

easybib Step 8: Download, Part 2

Works Cited

Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Smith, Jeff. Bone: One Volume Edition. nd: Cartoon Books, 2007.

easybib Step 9: Save As…(to the S Drive with your name)

Indentation

All the best tools are unfortunately never 100% perfect. Sometimes the citations will not hold their indentations. You must indent all but the first line. Just like you see here and

here.

Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.