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what is a biblography ? how do u write one?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    How do you write a bibliography?

    At its most basic, a bibliography is a list of books and publications related to a specific topic. You can write a bibliography for a particular author or about a specific topic. Bibliographies are often part of college research papers and academic articles, and in these cases, the bibliography lists all the works referred to in that paper or article. Sometimes nonfiction books will have bibliographies of works related to the book's subject matter. All bibliographies begin with research, which can include everything from hunting in a library to searching on the Web.

    The purpose of the bibliography defines its format. Different academic fields have their own requirements. According to the Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, the four most common format styles are those of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Chicago Manual of Style, and the Council of Science Editors, formerly known as the Council of Biology Editors (CBE) and still referred to as CBE style.

    The MLA style is most common in the fields of literature, foreign languages, and other humanities subjects. In research papers that conform to the MLA style, the bibliography is a list of works cited and contains information such as the author, title, and date of publication for the sources used to write the paper.

    The APA style style is used in social science disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, education, and business. In the APA, the bibliography is called the list of references, and it should be formatted slightly differently for college papers than for works being prepared for publication.

    The Chicago Manual of Style is a very popular style guide that is used in the publishing industry as well as in the academic fields of history and the humanities. In addition to a bibliography, the Chicago style uses footnotes or endnotes instead of in-text citations.

    The CBE style is common in the natural sciences. Science writing differs significantly from writing in fields such as the humanities, and a CBE references page for a scientific paper must follow a very specific citation format.

    While these are the major bibliography styles, formats vary among academic fields, college departments, and publishing houses. If you're submitting a bibliography for a class or for publication, check with the professor or editor first to see which format they prefer.

    You can use easybib.com . They make it for you and I believe you can transfer it to Microsoft Word.

  • 1 decade ago

    A bibliography is made up of citations.

    A citation give basic information about how to look up a resource you quote in something you write, usually to support your point.

    There are different formats for newspapers, books, online websites and the like. It can easily get complicated. Your teacher might get really picky about how it's done.

    To prevent getting points taken off for accidents in writing bibiliography try using the website listed in sources. All you do is answer questions, type in the info, then the bibliography will be generated for you. Once it's generated, all you do is copy and paste it into the document. It will save you time.

    I hope that's helpful.

  • 1 decade ago

    A bibliography is the list of sources you used in writing whatever you wrote. Check out the MLA guidelines for the correct format, though they're not the only format, and it depends on what type paper, essay, article or book you're writing.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I hope you meant to say you are writing a "biography" instead of a "bibliography." In any event, I would start with the Pittsburgh Steelers' website and then search on the name Terry Bradshaw to see what you come up with.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A bibliography is a list of source where you got your information. It is used mostly when writing essays.

  • 1 decade ago

    The examples (harvard style):

    Pioterek, P Zieleniecka, B (1999) Technika pisania prac dyplomowych, Poznań, Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej.

    (author(s), year, title, city, who published)

    Sapijaszka, Z (1999) ‘Co umieją studenci’, Forum Akademickie, 12, s. 32-34. (if it is in a newspaper, for example)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its just a fancy word for where you found information to write one just make a list of where you got your information from

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Look up "works cited samples"

  • 1 decade ago

    www.citationmachine.net is very helpful with bibliographies

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    yo

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