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PRESENTATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
DEFINITIONS OF A
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fleming(2017)defines a bibliography
as a list of books, scholarly articles,
speeches and other sources of
information used when researching a
topic and a paper.
A bibliography is also known as;
works cited,
Works consulted,
Reference list.
The etymology of the term bibliography can be semantically traced back
to the new Latin Bibliographia. It is a Greek word meaning “ copying of
books”
The bibliography is found at the end of the work and allows the person
reviewing the data to verify the veracity of the statements.
Bibliography means listing all the sources which you have consulted
while writing your essay or research article.
It is a secondary source of information.
TYPES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES
There are many different types of bibliographies, which
include;
Annotated Bibliography
Enumerative / systematic Bibliography
Current Bibliography
Retrospective Bibliography
Serial Bibliography
National Bibliography
International Bibliography
Subject bibliography
Analytical Bibliography
1. Descriptive/ physical bibliography
2. Historical bibliography
3.Textual bibliography
Types of bibliographies
Enumerative / systematic
Annotated bibliography
bibliography
it provides a list of the list of
It provides a brief
books according to some
description or annotation of
system, common theme to
the cited sources.
reference plan and
The annotation comprises includes information on; by
of a brief summary of author, by subject or by
content a long with a short date
analysis or evaluation.
Types of bibliographies
National International
bibliography bibliography
It provides a list of It provides a list of works,
documents and sources sources, publications,
published in a particular manuals, books, notes,
country and are articles and websites
produced in a national collected from world
or local language of a wide sources.
country.
Types of bibliographies
Retrospective
Current bibliography bibliography
It provides a list of it provides a list of
published materials and documents or parts of
sources which are documents or articles
recently published. published in previous
years as distinct from a
The purpose of a current
current bibliography.
bibliography is to report
recent literature as soon
as it is published.
Types of bibliographies
Serial bibliography
Subject bibliography
It provides a list of works It is published over a
and sources related to a period of known and
specific subject. pre-defined time slots.
Time intervals for serial
bibliographies normally
range from weekly to
annual basis and informs
on he updates of books
and research article
titles.
Types of bibliographies
Analytical bibliography:
It refers to the collection of Historical bibliography
sources and materials for the provides a list of contextual
purpose of critical study and factors related to the
evaluation. It’s categorized into production of the book i.e.
the following; printing, details, publishing,
Descriptive or physical bookselling etc.
bibliography provides a list of
detailed facts for a book analysis
by listing its size, format binding
Textual bibliography provides
a list of literary materials
and publication detailed.
concerned with identification
and editing of transcription
errors from manuals,
manuscripts, transcripts,
scribes.
PURPOSE AND USE OF
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
To facilitate a researcher to get an overview of the
existing literature.
Using the list of researched topics, one can get a
particular topic.
To give credit to authors whose work has been consulted.
A bibliography provides easy access to information since
relevant information is known.
Using a bibliography saves the time of a user by providing
relevant literature.
A bibliography helps one inquiring for information to know
the available materials on study topics or subject.
Purpose and use continued
Black, James. (2000). Web Site Standards. Hong Kong: Lingnan Publishing Company.
Chan, Susan. (20 April 2004). Results of Anti-Cancer Project. Retrieved from http:
//www.cptr.edu.hk/project.pdf.
Chung, Albert. and Lee, Mary. (2002). Server Technology. Hong Kong: Lingnan
Publishing Company.
Ho, Mary. (23 September 2004). Sharing Music Files. North China Morning Post. C2.
Ho, Paul. (3 April 2001). Anti-Cancer Project. East China Evening Post. A3.
Lee, Alfred. (2002). Peer-to-peer Systems. London: BCA Co.
Lee, Eliza. (5 August 2004). Searching for Extraterrestrial. Hi-Tech Daily p.c5.
Leung, David. (2004). Computer Systems. New York: ABC Co. Ltd.
Loo, A. Bloor, Chris. and Choi, Charlie. (2000). Parallel Computing using Web Servers
and Servlets. Internet Research, 10(2), p160-169
Smith, Chris. (2004). Searching for Power Server. International Journal of Lingnan, 5(3),
p134-145.
Wong, John. (2002). Testing the Web pages. Journal of Internet Testing, 32(3), p23-33.
Zhang, Alfred. (23 November 2002). Accessibility Survey. North China Morning Post. C3.
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