Different Kinds of Bibliographies

Bibliographies are classifi ed according to the style or the way of listing the
sources. There are three common types of bibliography:

 Analyti cal bibliography

 Enumerative bibliography
 Annotated bibliography

Analytical bibliography:

Analyti cal bibliographies include information concerning the booksellers and

printers, paper and binding descriptions, and any insights that unfold as a book
evolved from a manuscript to a published book. This can be further subdivided
into a descriptive bibliography concerned with the physical appearance and
nature of a book, a textual bibliography which compares the already published
work to the author’s original manuscript, and lastly, a historical bibliography
that shows the context of the production of the book.

Annotated bibliography:

Annotated bibliographies show the source of writer’s creation, in alphabetical

order. This type of bibliography lists a series of tasks that were done by the
author of the paper. They provide an outline of what kind of research was done
on a given chapter, the addition of notes about the source, comments on and a
summary of the source, an assessment of the source whereby the usefulness of
the source is evaluated, and refl ections on the source which provide a
perspecti ve on the usefulness of the text with respect to the  research question.

Enumerative bibliography:

Students writing research papers commonly use enumerative bibliography.

Here, the writer lists all the references considering some specifi c arrangements.
For example, an author starts with the subject then lastly dates items listed.
They share common characteristics such as language, topic or period of time.
Informati on concerning the source is then given by the writer so as to provide
directi ons to the readers towards the source. An example of this bibliography is
a card catalogue.