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How to Write a Bibliography of Primary Sources

A bibliography is used to cite sources for any information used when writing an essay, book or report. It is typed on a new page and has a page number that continues from the page numbers on the essay, book or report. The word "Bibliography" can be centered and used as the title of the page. The first source citation underneath the title should be placed after a double space. The Chicago style is a typical writing style used for creating bibliographies.

Instructions

- 1
  Indent your source citation entry five spaces from the left margin.
- 2
  Find and write down the title of your sourced article or book. Place a colon between two adjoining phrases in the title. As an example, you would do this is if your sourced article has a main title and a sub-title below it.
- 3
  Determine your source's author, publisher and the date that it was published.
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  Write the citation in the format:
  
  Author. Title. Location: Publisher, Date Published. An example of such an entry is:
  
  Smith, David. Nelson Mandela: A Single Man's Vision. New York: Paramount Publishers, 1998.
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  Place all the entries in the bibliography alphabetically by author with a single space between each entry.

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