How To Compile A Bibliography

How to compile a bibliography Because of the nature of different text-types, there are many variations in the way different texts are recorded within a bibliography. A novel has different requirements from a short story, for example. Both have different requirements from a film. Entries need to be ordered alphabetically according to the surnames of the authors/directors. This is a BASIC requirement of a bibliography. Punctuation IS important in a bibliography. Take care to use full stops, commas, and colons in the correct places, as demonstrated in the examples on the page opposite. As you compile your bibliography, keep in mind what its purpose is: to make your research process transparent. Your readers should be able to look your sources up if they feel the urge. By providing a detailed bibliography, you are providing them with the means to do this. TASK 1. Read the instructions for compiling a bibliography opposite. 2. Using the texts available to you here in the classroom,

compile a bibliography during today’s period. Your bibliography needs to contain details for a novel, a short story, a poem, a film, and any one website whose address you can remember. Remember to order your bibliography according to the surnames of the authors/directors.

For a novel: Hill, David. The Name of the Game. Wellington: Mallinson Rendel, 2001. (ie. Author. Title. City of publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.) For a short story: Marshall, Owen. ‘The Tsunami’. In Supper Waltz Wilson and Other Stories. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1979. pp 21-34. (ie. Author. ‘Title’. In Title of the book that the story is published in. City of publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Pages on which the story is found.) For a poem (taken from an anthology): Adcock, Fleur. ‘For a Five Year-Old’. In An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams (ed.s). Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. pp 267-268. (ie. Poet. ‘Title of poem’. In Title of the book in which the poem is published. Names of the book’s editors (ed.s). City of publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Page(s) on which the poem is found.) For a film: Tamahori, Lee. Once Were Warriors. Communicado, 1994. (ie. Director. Title of film. Production company, Year of Production. For a TV programme: Mulheron, Danny. ‘Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby’. Direct Hit Productions, 2005. Producer. ‘Title of TV programme’. Production company, Year of Production. For a website: The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/. Page accessed on Thursday 5 May, 2005. (ie. Title of website. Web address. Date on which you accessed the web page. NB: As websites do not have a particular author, and often the identity of article-writers is not given, list these at the bottom of your bibliography in alphabetical order according to website title.