Writing a bibliography

A bibliography is a list of all the sources that you used to make your eportfolio, this includes all books, magazines, newspapers, websites, interviews, and TV programmes. Writing a bibliography is an important part of collecting information in all the DiDA projects.

There is a standard way of laying them out that you MUST follow. This is:

1. Author – put the last name first.
2. Title – this should be underlined and in quotation marks.
3. Publisher - in a book this is usually located on one of the first few pages.
4. Date - the date/year the book/article was published.

Put each source on a single line, with a comma between each and a full stop at the end. You should arrange them in alphabetical order of the author’s surname.

You should also make sure that the list is double spaced.

Sometimes you may need to change the format around a bit, but always try to stick to the basic rules above. Use the examples below as a guideline:

Books Fleming, Ian, “Diamonds are Forever”, Penguin Books, 1957.

Newspapers and magazines Dancer, Dave, “How to Dance”, “Smash Hits”, September 2003, page 34.

An interview Jon Spencer, Architect, interviewed on 3/3/2005.

Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/dida, “Dangers of the Internet”, June 2005

An example of a completed DiDA bilbiography