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 * Creating Good Bibliographies/Works Cited: **

**I. Why do we need a bibliography? ** We need to remember that we obtain our research from works and research that other people have done. When we include these works/authors in footnotes and bibliographies we are giving the originators of these ideas credit for their ideas and work. The new copyright laws have given us more freedom to use information from other peoples works in our research but this is on the condition that we give "credit where credit is due." We must acknowledge who and/or where we obtained this information from. If we take someone's ideas and work and don't give them credit we are plagiarising. [|Why do We Cite Our Sources?] **II. What types of facts and ideas do we need to cite? ** If you are not sure whether or not you need to cite a source for a something you have written check out the following sites: [| When to Cite a Source Knowing When to Support Your Statements] [|Why Should You Cite? It's the law and it's there for you too] [|Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing your Sources] There are many types of items that we need to cite. The following show examples of the two basic items that you will probably use: A. Book:  Author’s LastName, Author’s FirstName. //Title of book//. Place  of Publication: Book Publisher, Date of Publication. Type . B. Internet Site: Author's Last name, Author's first name (if available). "Article title." //Website title//. Name of organization, sponsor or publisher of site. Date of last update. Medium of publication. Access date (date you used the site).
 * III.What information do we need in a bibliography? **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We need to cite every type of information source that we use. Here are a few examples: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Magazine articles <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Internet sites <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">TV newscasts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Encyclopedia articles <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">E-mails <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Podcasts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Photos and other illustrations || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Videos/DVD <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Interviews <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Newspaper articles <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Blogs <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Pamphlets <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Maps ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">IV. What types of information sources do we need to cite? **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Books
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> V. Now that I have all my citations how do I put my bibliography/works cited list together properly? **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Make sure that your bibliography is alphabetically arranged by the first word in each citation - sometimes this will be an author's last name and sometimes it will be the title. Ignore the words "the", "a" or "an" at the beginning of all titles.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Remember that if it takes more than one line to list an item in your bibliography then all lines under the first line are indented.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If there is more than one city listed as the place of publication use the city geographically closest to Kamloops. Use the Canadian city if there is a choice between a Canadian city or one from another country.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Copyright date: Use the most current date after the symbol c.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Check out this file to see what a properly formated bibliography looks like**.** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">VIII. How do I make sure m <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">y bibliographies entries are properly entered? ** > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If you need any help make sure that you come and talk to Mrs. in't Veld and she will help you out. >
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">VI. What does a proper bibliography/works cited look like? **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Use [|EasyBib] to enter your data for each resource you use. (Do this as you go along)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Choose the type (book, website, youtube, etc.) of item you are citing.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Enter the ISBN (if a book) or the URL (if a website) and click on "Cite this"
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">If there are empty fields check your resource and fill in those empty fields that you can find the information for.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You may have to confirm that the result that comes up is the right one for your item.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Click on "Create Citation"
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Copy the citation and paste it into an empty //Google Doc// or other type of text documen t.
 * I<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">f EasyBib cannot locate information on the item you used fill in the form that they supply and //EasyBib// will create the properly formatted citation for this item.