Bibliography advice

It is best to keep your bibliography up to date as you go through each project. You'll find it is very hard to go back and try to write the bibliography once you have completed the project.

Follow these general tips to build an accurate bibliography:

• Keep a word processor file called bibliography open whenever you are working on your project. Add to it whenever you do some research.
• Remember to list authors and sources in alphabetical order.
• Remember it is fine to use secondary sources to gather information for your project, but you cannot just reproduce them. It would be plagiarism [plagiarism: copy a piece of work and passing it off as your own ] and could infringe copyrightcopyright: gives the creator of an original piece of work control over its publication, distribution and adaptation.
• You don’t need to have several pages of references, just put in the things you used. Don’t add things just for the sake of it.
• You will probably need between 10 and 20 references for most projects.
• Don’t put search engines down in your bibliography. It is the information that you found that is the important thing to include. This is also the case for images you find using search engines such as Google Images.