Exercise 6: Bibliographies
Alongside footnotes, your written work should also include a bibliography at the end listing all the works that you've used. Bibliography entries contain mostly the same information as a footnote, but they are formatted slightly differently. A bibliography entry differs in three ways:
- The names of the first author are reversed: surname, first name
- The page number(s) of the specific quotation/argument cited are not given in the bibliography
- Bibliography entries do not end in a full stop
Bibliography entries should be presented in alphabetical order in a list with no bullet points / numbers used. For instance, here's a bibliography of some of the examples used in the preceding exercises:
Conradi, Peter, 'Iris Murdoch and Wales', Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 75 (2005), 26-34
Eliot, George, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, ed. by David Carroll (London: Penguin Books, 2003)
Herrick, Robert, 'His Farewell to Sack', in Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets, ed. by Hugh Maclean (London: Norton, 1974), pp. 110-12
Lynch, Gerald, 'Religion and Romance in Mariposa', in Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal, ed. by David Staines (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1986), pp. 83-96
Turner, Marion, Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007)
Exercise
Here are the footnotes you've written in the last five exercises. As a final exercise, turn each of these footnotes into a bibliography entry (we've arranged them in alphabetical order for you).
Correct Bibliography
Your bibliography entries above should look like this:
Austen, Jane, *Persuasion*, ed. by James Kinsley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Hall, Susan L., 'The Last Laugh: A Critique of the Object Economy in Margaret Atwood's *Oryx and Crake*', *Contemporary Women's Writing*, 4 (2010), 179-96
Hoenselaars, A. J., 'Shakespeare and the Early Modern History Play', in *The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays*, ed. by Michael Hattaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 25-40
Manley, Lawrence, *Literature and Culture in Early Modern London* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Wordsworth, William, 'The Last of the Flock', in *The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse*, ed. by John Barrell and John Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 454-58
In your own work, the same entries would look like this:
Austen, Jane, Persuasion, ed. by James Kinsley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Hall, Susan L., 'The Last Laugh: A Critique of the Object Economy in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake', Contemporary Women's Writing, 4 (2010), 179-96
Hoenselaars, A. J., 'Shakespeare and the Early Modern History Play', in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays, ed. by Michael Hattaway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 25-40
Manley, Lawrence, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Wordsworth, William, 'The Last of the Flock', in The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse, ed. by John Barrell and John Bull (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982), pp. 454-58
