ASSIGNMENT ON

ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Submitted to: Submitted by :

Mrs. Rajlaxmi Ms. Aafrin

Tutor MSc 1st year

RCON RCON

Jamia Hamdard Jamia Hamdard

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Annotated bibliography is a descriptive account of the particular literature source's
bibliographic information it is generally provided in alphabetical order (citation) with
a brief description about the content of literature and evaluative comments
regarding the usefulness of the particular literature (annotation).
• In other words, annotated bibliography is a list of citation of books, research articles
and documents and each of these citations are followed by a brief description about
content and evaluation about its usefulness (about 150-200 words) as annotation.
• The main purpose of annotated bibliography is to inform readers about the
relevance, accuracy and quality of source cited in a particular paper.
• It also serves as a guide for other researchers that this source of cited literature is of
use to them and what, why and how it is of their use.
• Furthermore, it helps the researchers to get a deeper and clear understanding of the
content of a particular source of literature, which provides them better
comprehension about what and how to incorporate the particular literature in their
paper.

COMPONENTS OF ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annotated bibliography consists of the following components:

1. Citation: The first component of the annotated bibliography is to make citation of

article, book or document using prescribed style of bibliography writing such as
Vancouver's, American Psychological Association (APA), Modern Language Association
(MLA), Chicago and so on.
2. Annotation: The second component of the annotation bibliography is to briefly write the
summary of content in approximately 4-7 sentences or 150-200 words, which could vary
from university to university based on local policies. The comprehensively written
annotated bibliography consists of the following information:

• Author's background and authority for content.

• Central theme of article, book or document.
• Methodology (if research paper).
• Strengths, weaknesses and justification on usefulness of content
• Comparison with other studies on the topic.
• Conclusion about content and source.

PURPOSES OF ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

A well written annotated bibliography serves the following purposes:

• Provide information to readers about the relevance, accuracy and quality of source
cited in particular paper.
 • Serves as a guide for other researchers that the source of cited literature is of their
use and what, why and how it is of their use.
• Helps the researchers to get deeper and clearer understanding of the content of a
particular source of the literature, which provides them the better comprehension
about what and how to incorporate the particular literature in their paper.
• Provides clear and comprehensive understanding of the content of source of
literature and its evaluative summary about its usefulness.

PROCESS OF WRITING ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writing an annotated bibliography needs a variety of academic and intellectual skills such as
literature search strategies, ability to critically appraise, succinct comprehension and concise
com position of content. The process of writing annotated bibliography include the
following steps:

• Step :- 1. Literature source identification: Identify the literature relevant to particular

topic under study such as books, original research articles, periodicals, other
documents and so on.
• Step :- 2. Critical review and appraisal of content: Review and critically appraise the
content for the relevance, accuracy and quality of particular content in the literature
source.
• Step :-3. Choosing relevant content: Choose the content, which is relevant to
particular topic from variety of domains and perspectives.
• Step:-4. Citation of source: Make citation of article, book or document using
prescribed style of bibliography writing such as Vancouver's, American Psychological
Association (APA), Mod ern Language Association (MLA), Chicago and so on..
• Step :-5.Annotation writing: Concisely write the annotation that briefly summarizes
the content for its central theme, strengths, weakness, conclusion and evaluative
sentence about useful ness of the topic (as brief as 4-7 sentences or 150-200 words).

EXAMPLE OF ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Sharma, S.K., Walia, L. Sen R. (2008). Effect of Smoking on Pin Site Infection Rate
among Patients with External Skeletal Fixation. Nursing and Midwifery Research
Journal, 4(2), 68-72.
• The authors are research scholars, nursing faculties at National Institute of Nursing
Edu cation, PGIMER, Chandigarh and they observed the effect of smoking on 321 pin
sites in patients with external fixation (Sharma, Walia, & Sen, 2008). Both the groups
were homogenous as per gender, age, general health, haemoglobin, blood sugar
level, use of anti-microbials and other co-morbidities but it was a short duration
cohort study without much control on con founders. The hypothesis of paper
strongly supported that smokers had significantly higher pin site infection as
compared to non-smokers. Other available studies also reported similar results
except Ward et al. (1997), who found no significant difference among the groups.
The following information will need to be included in the annotation for each source:

SUMMARY – WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

• What is the author’s purpose, aim or research question?
• What is the main argument, finding or conclusion

EVALUATION – WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE TEXT?

• Who is it written for? (e.g. the general public, health professionals, academic staff?)
• What do you think are the main strengths?
• Are there any weaknesses or flaws with the research?

REFLECTION – HOW MIGHT YOU USE IT?

• Has the text helped you understand something more in depth?
• How useful is the research?
• How might you refer to it?

BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Beck Polit, “Nursing Research”, Ninth edition, Published by Wolters and Kluwers, Pp-
515-517.
• Sharma K. Suresh, Nursing Research and Statistics, 3rd edition, published by Elsevier,
Pp- 253-255.