What is a bibliography?
Say “bibliography” to most writers, and the response is a big, fat “ugh.”
Be that as it may, if you did any research for a paper, book or article, you must include a bibliography, a list citing where you got your information.
The reason so many writers dislike compiling a bibliography is they’re unfamiliar with the required format.
Carmun to the rescue.
Carmun offers seven of the most common bibliography formats – the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago Manual of Style Humanities and Scientific, Turabian Humanities and Scientific, and the Council of Science Editors (CSE).
Which bibliography format you choose depends on what you’re writing. MLA is what many high school teachers and college professors prefer. The APA leans to the social sciences. The Chicago Style Manual has been called the bible of book publishing. Turabian is an offshoot of the Chicago Style Manual developed specifically for college papers, dissertations and theses. And as you might suspect, the CSE goes heavy into the sciences.
All bibliographies contain basically the same elements, but differ in such things as whether a title is italicized, underlined or Roman.
With carmun, compiling a bibliography is just a matter of filling in the information on your source; selecting whether the material came from a book, journal, magazine, newspaper, Web site, lecture, wherever; choosing the format; and – CLICK. Carmun does the rest.
This guide will introduce you to the different bibliography formats in case it’s up to you to choose one. It will walk you through the wonderful world of annotated bibliographies. Show you the details you need to compile a bibliography from printed sources, broadcast and electronic.
Let’s not forget footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical references and how to write them.
Hey, let’s not forget the writer’s seriour “oops” error. “Oops, I didn’t keep track of sources as I found them.” Then you are faced at the end of writing with having to scrounge around for your research material to assemble the bibliography.
In the olden days, pre-carmun, that meant keeping a list as you went along in an electronic document or on good, old three-by-five cards. No more. Welcome to the twenty-first century. Now you can import and store the information as you find books and articles straight to carmun. If you’re just getting started on a project, install Save Online Sources.
If you’ve already finished your project, no biggy. Just fill in the carmun bibliography form, and click this link to start.
