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A bibliography is a list of the resources you used to write your essay. There are lots of different methods of writing bibliographies, but most secondary schools and universities use the ‘Author-date' system.
Bibliography Template
Find a copy of a bibliography template here.
Online Bibliography Referencing websites
The following website will create your bibliography for you, which you can then either download or copy and pasted.
How to write a bibliography
When using this system, you need to include slightly different information for different types of resources:
Books
author's name – surname followed by first initial
year of publication of the edition you're using
title, in italics
place of publication, usually a city
publisher
For example Ned Kelly: a short life. It was written by Ian Jones in 2003, and published by Lothian Books in the suburb of South Melbourne in Victoria. In our references it appears as:
Jones, I. (2003) Ned Kelly: a short life. South Melbourne, Vic : Lothian Books.
Magazines, newspapers & journals
author's name – surname followed by first initial, if there's a by-line
year of publication
title of the article in single quote marks [‘...']
name of the publication, in italics
specific date, including volume number if applicable
page number.
If there's no by-line and you don't know who wrote the article, record the:
title of article
name of the newspaper
date
page number.
So your reference would look like:
'Yorta people vow to fight on', The Age, 19 Dec 1998, p8.
Websites
name of the organisation or person who made the site
year the site was created
name of the site
date you looked at the site
complete web address
If you used the State Library of Victoria Ergo website to help you write your bibliography you would reference it as:
State Library of Victoria. Ergo. Accessed 15 March, 2018. http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/.
The information on this page comes from the State Library of Victoria Ergo page.
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