Learning Objective: Students will be able to correctly cite information using a bibliography.

Writing Strategies Standard 1.8

To acknowledge our sources (show where we found the information) To give our readers information to identify and consult our sources To make sure our information is accurate To show academic honesty

Why do we write bibliographies?

What if we don’t include abibliography?

This is called plagiarism (usinganother person’s words, pictures orideas without giving them credit).To avoid plagiarism, we give credit to our sources by citing them in ourbibliography.

A bibliography is an alphabetical list of all sources you consult or use for projects, reports, research, etc., including–

books magazines newspapers encyclopedias

What is a bibliography?

How to cite a book…

Meade, Melody. Endangered andnearly endangered species in theWashington DC area. New York:Scholastic, 2009.

Author’s last name and first name should be first.

Title of book

Place of publication

Publisher Date it was published

When you write a research report you read different articles, books, magazines, etc

If you want to use words that the author used you would use quotation marks in your report to include those same words.

In the bibliography of your report you would include the author’s last name, first name. Title of book. City it was published:Publisher, and year.

When writing a research report…

a. the title of the bookb. The date the book was publishedc. Author of bookd. How many pages the book was

If Tommy decides to add a quotation from a book to his report, his bibliography should include all of these except

Meade, Melody. Endangered and nearly endangered

species in the Washington DC area. New York: Scholastic, 2009.

Who published the book?What year was this book published?Who is the author of this book?

This is an example of a cited work

Scholastic

2009

Melody Meade

Lopez, George. Living in Los Angeles. San Fernando: Birmingham Press, 2011.

What company published the book?What year was this book published?Who is the author of this book?

This is an example of a cited work

Birmingham Press

2011

George Lopez

If Joey is writing his own recipe book and uses recipe ideas from other cookbooks, he will need to include in the bibliography; the author, title of recipe, publisher, year it was published, and________.

a. State it was published in b. How many pagesc. Place of publication