Questions on Biblios

Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 6, 2007 at 07:19 PM

Ken,

I hope you aren’t looking for a simple answer to this, as best practice depends on the referencing style, journal, professional society, publisher etc. All of which are different.

Some hints on the Harvard system (including unpublished works) are at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/training/referencing/harvard.htm

However,I suggest getting a hold of some bibliographic software. Free ones like Jabref are very good. http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

They allow you to store the information and worry about the formatting later. They also generally give help with the information you will need to store. So when you choose to add a new entry, you select from a list of entry types, with the program presenting you with the appropriate fields that you need to fill in.

For the final production of the bibliography, you then tell the program the style you want and it spews out a correctly formatted bibliography. Or at least most of the time it does.

So you can leave the questions of formatting until later.

Graham