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This document provides guidance on compiling a working bibliography for research. It explains that a working bibliography contains sources that have been or will be used in a research project. It provides formatting guidelines for listing author names, book titles, books with multiple authors, and books with more than three authors in a bibliography. Author names should be written with the last name first followed by a comma and the first name. Book titles should follow rules for capitalization of words. Multiple author names are formatted with the last name of the first author followed by the additional full names. More than three authors are shortened to the first author's name followed by "et al.".

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Research Materials Two

This document provides guidance on compiling a working bibliography for research. It explains that a working bibliography contains sources that have been or will be used in a research project. It provides formatting guidelines for listing author names, book titles, books with multiple authors, and books with more than three authors in a bibliography. Author names should be written with the last name first followed by a comma and the first name. Book titles should follow rules for capitalization of words. Multiple author names are formatted with the last name of the first author followed by the additional full names. More than three authors are shortened to the first author's name followed by "et al.".

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TEACHING/LEARNING MATERIALS FOR GRADUATION RESEARCH CLASS TWO

STEP 3 OF RESEARCH: COMPILING A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY


The word biblio in Greek means book and graphy means writing. Bibliography refers to a list of
books that are related to a particular subject or topic.
A working bibliography is necessary while conducting research. A working bibliography refers to
the list of books or internet sources that the researcher uses or will use in the process of research.
So, a working bibliography contains:

A list of books or internet sources that the researcher has already used (AND/OR)
A list of books or internet sources that the researcher intends to use

Generally, when a researcher reads a particular book, then he/should record the following
information about it:

Name of the author


Title of the Book with edition (if it is the second or third or fifth edition)
Place of Publication
Name of the publisher
Year of publication
Whether it a printed book or an internet source

NAME OF THE AUTHOR:


Usually, while mentioning the name of the author, one must mention the second name first. After
the second name a comma is added, and then the first name is written.
For example William Shakespeare is written like this:
Shakespeare, William
Look at the following names of authors. How will you write them in your working
bibliography?
David Crystal

Anne Bodine

Julie R. McMillan

Nancy C. Dorian

Jenny Thomas

Leila Fawaz

William Bright
Alexander Pope

Joan Rubin

H.W. Longfellow

Amin Malouf
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Nawal Sadawi

Rita Dove

Stanley Fish

BOOKS BY TWO OR THREE AUTHORS:


Some books are written by two or three authors. In such cases, one must write the name of the first
author with the second name first and the first name after the comma. But for the second and the
third authors, the names should be written as they are.
For example:
Casey Miller and Kate Swift
Here the first author is Casey Miller. So the name should be written like this:
Miller, Casey.
But the second name should be written as it is. So while writing the names of the author, this is
how the names should appear:
Miller, Casey and Kate Swift

Now look at these names.

Margaret C. Sharpe and John Sandefur


These names will be written like this:
Sharpe, Margaret C. and John Sandefur

Now look at these names.

Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli


Here there are three authors.
As usual, the name of the first author is reversed. But the other two remain the same.
So, the researcher will write the names like this:
Russell, Tony, Allen Brizee, and Elizabeth Angeli

Look at the following names of authors. How will you write them in your working
bibliography?
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2.

James Milroy and Leslie Milroy


Elizabeth Gordon and Tony Deverson
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Janet Holmes, Allan Bell, and Mary Boyce


Andrew Wright, David Betteridge and Michael Buckby
Howard Giles and Philip Smith
Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill
Herbert W. Seliger and Elena Goldberg Shohamy
Barry Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley
Susan Philips and Anne Reynolds
Julie R. McMillan, Kay Clifton and Diane McGrath

BOOKS BY MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS


When there are books written by more than three authors, then only the first author's name is
written with the second name first and the first name second. Instead of the others, the researcher
can write et al meaning "and others."
For example:
Pablo Fontela, Antonio Sorio, Javier Mielgo, and Juan de Blas can be written like this:
Fontela, Pablo, et al
TITLE OF THE BOOK:
While writing the title of the book, one has to follow certain rules of punctuations.
CAPITALISE THE FIRST WORD.
CAPITALISE ALL NOUNS, VERBS, ADJECTIVES, AND ADVERBS, CONJUNCTIONS
(BECAUSE, AS, THAT), AND PRONOUNS (I, YOU, HE, SHE, IT, YOUR, MINE, MY)
DO NOT CAPITALISE CONJUNCTIONS (AND, BUT, OR, FOR), ARTICLES, AND
PREPOSITIONS WHEN THEY COME IN THE MIDDLE OF A TITLE. IF THEY COME AT THE
END, THEY SHOULD BE CAPITALISED.
AFTER A COLON OR A QUESTION MARK, CAPITALISE THE FIRST WORD.

Look at the following list of titles. How will you write them in your working bibliography?
tell me your dreams

will in the world: how shakespeare became shakespeare


the moral symbols of william golding
language: the loaded weapon
the merry wives of Windsor
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myths to live by

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