UGC NET Study Notes On Bibliography

Bibliography

• It is a list of all the sources researcher have used in the research work.
• Bibliography includes the following :
• Name of the Author:
• Title of Work
• Publishing house name and location
• Date of publishing
• The page number of source

Difference between Bibliography, Annotated bibliography and Works cited page 

• Works cited page is a list of every work cited in the text of a paper.
• A bibliography is a list of every work researcher used while writing a paper, whether or not it was specifically cited.
• An annotated bibliography is a bibliography with a short note by the author explaining the significance of the source.

Bibliography format

1. American Psychological Association

• Author’s last name, first name. (year of publication).Book Title.Publication Place: Publisher
• Example: 
• Stokes, E. 1959. The English Utilitarians and India. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Sinha, N.K. 1962. Economic History of Bengal. Vol. 2. Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay.

Encyclopedia

• Author’s last name, first initial. (Date). Title of Article. Title of Encyclopedia(Volume Pages). City of Publication: Publishing company
• Example
• McGhee, K., & McKay, G. (2007). Insects. In Encyclopedia of animals (p.175). Washington, D.c.: National Geographic Society.

Newspaper and Magazine

• Authors last name, first name. (Publication date). Article title. Periodical title, volume number (issue number if available), inclusive pages.
• Example
• Bagchi, Alaknanda (1996): “Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s Bashai Tudu,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol 15, No 1, pp 41–50.

Website

• Author’s name. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Title of Periodical, volume numbers, Retrieved month day, year, from full URL.
• Example
• Uri, J. (2019, June 14). Fifty years ago: Nearly one month to boots in the lunar dust. Retrieved from https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/pages.ashx/1184/Fifty%%20Month%20to%20Boots%20in%20Lunar%20Dust.

2. Chicago Manual Style

• Citation in Chicago Manual Style is cited in footnotes and not in Bibliography

Book

• Author’s last name, first name. Title of Work. Publication Place: Publisher, Publication Year.
• Example
• Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press, 1958

Encyclopedia

• Last Name, First Name. Encyclopedia/Dictionary name, Edition ed., s.v. “Article Title.” Publication City: Publisher Name, Year Published.
• Example
• Smith, John. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed., s.v. “Internet.” 20 vols. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009

Newspaper and magazine

• Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title, Month Date, Year of publication.
• Example
• Bowman, Lee. “Bills Target Lake Erie Mussels.” The Pittsburgh Press, March 7, 1990.

Website

• Last Name, First Name. “Page Title.” Website Title. Web Address (retrieved Date Accessed).
• Example
• Smith, John. “Obama inaugurated as President.” CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/01/21/obama_inaugurated/index.html (accessed February 1, 2009).

3. Modern Language Association (MLA)

Book

• Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.
• Example
• Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.

Encyclopedia

• Last Name, First Name. “Article title.” Encyclopedia/Dictionary name. Year Published. Medium.
• Example
• Smith, John. “Internet.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Print.

Website

• Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the Article or Individual Page.” Title of the Website, Name of the Publisher, Date of Publication in Day Month Year format, URL.
• Example
• Haider, Suhasini “Indian Army denies Chinese accusations, says PLA fired warning shots in the air” The Hindi, 08 September 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-army-denies-chinese-accusations-says-pla-fired-warning-shots-in-the-air/article32549563.ece?homepage=true.

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