Part 4

References and Bibliography

Everything you read about your topic must be noted in your essay. This could be a handwritten list or more efficiently it could be done with a spreadsheet on your computer.

Include the name of the source, the author(s), date, publisher, shelf mark, place of publication. Include a note or two about how useful the book or article was. You may want to find more materials from a particular author, or another article on a similar topic. Keep these working notes for years! They can be helpful in other essays as well.

Later, this chart will become the essence of your bibliography. You will need this data to fulfil the requirements of effective bibliography formatting.