Answered By: Mantra Henderson Last Updated: Feb 25, 2021 Views: 4
Answered By: Mantra Henderson
Last Updated: Feb 25, 2021 Views: 4
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Q. What is bibliographic information?
Regardless of what citation style is being used, there are key pieces of information that need to be collected in order to create the citation.
For books and/or journals:
- Author name
- Title of publication
- Article title (if using a journal)
- Date of publication
- Place of publication
- Publisher
- Volume number of a journal, magazine or encyclopedia
- Page number(s)
For websites:
- Author and/or editor name
- Title of the website
- Company or organization that owns or posts to the website
- URL (website address)
- Date of access
This section provides two examples of the most common cited sources: a print book and an online journal retrieved from a research database.
Book - Print
For print books, bibliographic information can be found on the TITLE PAGE. This page has the complete title of the book, author(s) and publication information.
The publisher information will vary according to the publisher - sometimes this page will include the name of the publisher, the place of publication and the date.
For this example:
Book title: HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible
Author: Steven M. Schafer
Publisher: Wiley Publications, Inc.
If you cannot find the place or date of publication on the title page, refer to the COPYRIGHT PAGE for this information. The copyright page is the page behind the title page, usually written in a small font, it carries the copyright notice, edition information, publication information, printing history, cataloging data, and the ISBN number.
For this example:
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Date of publication: 2010
Article - ProQuest Database
In the article view:
Bibliographic information can be found under the article title, at the top of the page. The information provided in this area is NOT formatted according to any style.
Bibliographic information can also be found at the bottom of the page; in an area titled INDEXING. (Not all the information provided in this area is necessary for creating citations, refer to the rules of the style being used for what information is needed.)
