Annotated
Bibliography
for Western Civilization
Your annotated bibliography requires ten
entries as follows:
Seven Print Media entries
a. one encyclopedic entry
b. two book entries
c. one scholarly journal article
d. two magazines or other articles
e. one original source
Three Web sources
Please set up your annotated bibliography in a form
shown below.
Note that I have not given an example for each type of bibliographic entry.
Annotation means a comment about the bibliographic
entry. It is not a review or complete summary of what you read. The annotation should
not be longer than three to five sentences.
Your annotation should:
a) include a one sentence summary or evaluation of the article
cited;
b) include
some information on the author of the article or book Who is he?
What are his credentials?
c) include the library where you did your research,
when you did the research, and the call numbers of the book cited;
d) for Web citations, please tell me something about
the organization whose Web pages you are using. Is it a college or
university? A political interest group? A newspaper or magazine?
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Your Name
Your Course and Section
Date
Annotated
Bibliography
Title
of Your Research Topic
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition (1998), s.v.
"Bibliography."
Verner C. Clapp of the Council on Library
Resources wrote this introductory article on bibliographies. It is not
particularly useful for our purposes since it goes well beyond the question of
how to do a bibliography. From a broader perspective, it informs us that
we are merely doing a "source list" when we compile
a ten item
bibliography.
Books
The Chicago Manual of Style: The
Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers,
15th Ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2003.
This is a 956 page tome that tells you more
than the ordinary person would ever want to know about formatting a book for
publication. The chapters on documentation explain how do do
bibliographies. It seems to me that Web citations are still not fully
integrated even in this 2003 edition. One would expect that Turabian
will soon follow with an updated version of her briefer book.
Turabian, Kate
L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and
Dissertations, 6th Ed.
Chicago:
University
of Chicago Press, 1996.
Turabian’s Manual, 6th ed., is based on the fourteenth edition of the
Chicago Manual of Style (1993). Turabian is an abbreviated condensation of the
more comprehensive University of Chicago Manual. Turabian is
available at the UCC library, at most town libraries, and can be bought at
most bookstores. Its reference number in the UCC Library is:
REF 808.02 Tu84m6.
Scholarly Journals
I
shall not give any particular entries for this category. But I will cite a
few scholarly journals, so that you get the idea.
Administrative Science
Quarterly
American Political Science Review
American Historical Review
Business Ethics Quarterly
Current History
Economic History Review
European History Quarterly
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
History Today
Isis
Mind
Political Science Quarterly
Public Administration Review
Public Affairs Quarterly
Popular Magazines
I
shall not give any particular entries for this category. But I will cite a
few popular journals, so that you get the idea.
Time Magazine
Newsweek
U.S. News and World Report
The New Yorker
Atlantic Monthly
Harpers
The Economist
National Geographic
Original Source
Bissett, Susan and Lisa Bruckman.
"Union County College Libraries Citation Guide:
Documenting Sources Using Turabian." September 2000.
This is a pamphlet prepared by two UCC
librarians and available at the UCC Library. This pamphlet was
specifically produced for my courses and thus may qualify as an original
source. It really belongs in the category of "pamphlet."
A book by Aristotle is an
original source on Aristotle.
A newspaper article
written during the U.S. Civil War is an original source on that time period.
Web Resources
Ohio State University Libraries. "Guides
to the OSU Libraries: Turabian Citation Guide."
Available
online from:
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/guides/turabiangd.html.
Last Update: 10/22/03, The Library Instruction Office.
[Accessed on October 28, 2003.]
This Web site provides additional examples of
how to do bibliography in the Turabian format.
University of Southern Mississippi. USM
Libraries. "Turabian Style Guide." Available
online from:
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~instruct/guides/turabian.html.
Last
modified: January 19, 2003. [Accessed on October 28, 2003.]
Another Web site providing examples of how to
do a bibliography in the Turabian format.
Damerow, Harold E., Prof. of Government and
History, Union County College
"Information
Literacy." Available online from:
http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/info_literacy.htm.
[Accessed on October 28,
2003.}
You are looking at one of the pages meant to help you complete
the annotated bibliography
required in some of my courses.
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Common Errors on Annotated Bibliography
Categorize as shown above.
Single space bibliographic entries.
Indent second and following lines of
bibliographic entries.
Leave a line space between bibliographic
entry and annotative remarks.
Indent annotation (make margins five spaces
smaller on both margins).
Singe space annotations.
Leave line space after annotative remarks.
Name of articles are placed in quotation
" " marks.
Names of books and names of magazines are
underlined or italicized..
For scholarly journals, give Volume #, Issue
#, Month and Year of Publication, and pages of article in journal.
For popular magazines and newspapers, give
date that the issue appeared for public sale. (You don't have to cite volume
and issue numbers)
You do not number bibliographic entries when
you use the Turabian format.
Books require place of publication,
publisher, and year of publication. For example:
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2004.
Bibliographies and
Footnotes are two different things. Footnotes have a slightly different
format than do Bibliographies.
This Web page and others linked to it provide an introduction on how to
do research, footnotes, and bibliographies. These pages are meant for my students.
Dr. Harold Damerow
Professor of Government and History
Union County College
Cranford, NJ
Last Updated November 30, 2006