Q. What will your Preliminary Bibliography be/Have?

A. At a minimum it will have Citations of Sources following a Style Manual and arranged in a Bibliography. It probably will have additional elements to help your research. Eg. Entries will be arranged according to a style manual, and kind of bibliography that best suits your topic, research question, final paper, and (study) goals.

Parts of a Citation and Seminary Standard Citation Style Manuals

Question (Decision you need to make): Which style manual?

APA (Seminary Standard)

Garrett, S. (1993). The "Weaker Sex" in the Testament of Job. Journal of Biblical Literature, 112(1), 55-70. doi:10.2307/3267864

Chicago (Seminary Standard)

Garrett, Susan R. "The "Weaker Sex" in the Testament of Job." Journal of Biblical Literature 112, no. 1 (1993): 55-70. Accessed March 4, 2020. doi:10.2307/3267864.

Turabian (Seminary Standard)

What would the above Garrett citation look like in Turabian?

Types of Bibliographies:

Question (Decision you need to make): What kind of bibliography?

Bibliographies can be exhaustive or selective, comprised of citations only or citations plus annotations or abstracts. These "bibliography entries" become "citations" and "references" and depending on the type of bibliography, they may be arranged alphabetically, chronologically, or by subject (topical). In addition, subject headings (or descriptors as they are called in electronic database indexes) may be included.

Bibliography of a Journal: JELIS, 1984-2006

https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/105647/JelisBibliographyAll.html?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Browse Introduction, see how sections are arranged, and notice the number of entries (over a thousand); this is an exhaustive bibliography of a specific journal.

Annotated Bibliography

Besides an Introduction section with items like: Scope and Coverage, Topics covered, Audience, Limitations, and Arrangement of Entries, Annotated bibliographies include abstracts / annotations besides the citation.

Annotated and Subject Bibliography: WebMetrics Bibliography

https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/105945/wmetricsbibascv2.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Browse the Introduction section and number of entries, type of annotations, and broad topical subheadings

Bibliography at the end of a research report or peer reviewed article i.e. Works Cited, References, Footnotes

Anita Coleman. Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries

Susan Garrett. The Weaker Sex in the Testament of Job. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3267864?seq=1

More Bibliographies: Tip: "Bibliographies" and "bibliography" are LC subject headings (Morgan) aka descriptors

1. Oxford Bibliographies - see their entire subject list: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/subject-list and this link is for their African American Religions: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0080.xml
2. Anti-racism Digital Library - search for bibliography - Racial Justice Bibliography
3. African-American Religion: Bibliographies - https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=295940&p=1973100
4. Behavioral Health Services for People who are homeless - from the NIH- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138731/