Silayan R.

dela Cruz

Ivy D. Gonzales

Earl Valentin M. Lozano

BSA 1 11

TOPIC: WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY

What is working bibliography?

A working bibliography is a detailed list of books and articles and other library
sources that you intend to use in your research.

A working bibliography is the publishing details of each source you use or cite so
that they can be properly referenced in a Works Cited or References List at the end of
your document.

Many writers record individual sources on 3" X 5" or 4" X 6" inch note cards.
Then, as the stack grows, they can be arranged, rearranged and compiled in any order
of importance that suits the researcher's purpose. Other writers use notebooks small
enough to fit in a pocket.

Each bibliography must contain the following data:

FOR BOOKS:

1. Library card number (upper left corner of the card)

2. Surname/s of author(s) in capital letters, for instant identification of card (upper

right corner)

3. Authors (s) full name/s (if more than one, invert name of 1st author only)

4. Book title, underlined

5. Publication data: place of publication; publisher, year.

 PE MAGGIO 2

1483
1 M193
1990
3 Maggio, Rosalie
4 How to Say It. Englewood Cliffs
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990. 5

Note the punctuation marks colon after the place of publication, comma after the
publication, and period after the year of publication.

FOR ARTICLES:

1. Surname/s of author(s) in capital letters, for instant identification of card (upper

right corner)

2. Authors (s) full name/s (if more than one, invert name of 1st author)

3. Title of article in quotation

4. Title of periodical, underlined

5. Date and page number/s

6. Volume number and issue number

 1
2 CLIFT
Clift, Renee T. Learning To Teach English
Maybe: Study of Knowledge Development 3

4 Journal of Teacher Education 42.5.

6 (Nov. Dec. 1991): 357-72
5

Note: Date of issue is enclosed in parentheses.

1
TUCHMAN
2 Tuchman, Barbara W. The Decline of 3
Quality. New York Times Magazine
4 2 Nov. 1980 : 38-57.
4

Bibliography card for a magazine article.

Note: Date of issue is not enclosed in parentheses.

PN VERDERBER
4121
V483
2000 Verdeber, Rudolf F.
th
The Challenge of Effective Speaking. 11 ed.
CA: Wadsworth, 2000.

A book with one author and a later edition.

P BEEBE and BEEBE

90
N483
1999 Beebe, Steven A. and Susan J. Beebe
Communicate! Public Speaking
th
An Audience Centered Approach. 4 ed.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

A book with two authors.

HD JOHANSEN et. al.
66
L43
1991 Johansen, Robert, David Sibbet, Suzyn Benson
Alexis Martin, Robert Mittman and
Paul Saffo. Leading Business Teams.
New York: Addison Wesley Publishing
Company, 1991.

A book with six authors.

BJ POJMAN
1812
E84
1998 Pojman, Louis P. ed. Ethical Theory,
rd
Classical and Contemporary Readings, 3 ed.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.
BJ ARUTA et al.
1661
b561
1998 Aruta, Jorge, Ceres Doyo and Letty
Jimenez Magsanoc. Eds. The Best of
Young Blood. Pasig City: Anvil, 1998

A book with three editors

HD
38.22
P466
1996 Perspective on the Manila Action Plan
nd
for APEC. 2 ed. Pacific Economic
Cooperative Council, 1996.

A book with no author

 SYERS

Syers, Mandy. Hard Disk Management.

Manila Bulletin 2 July 2001: D4

A daily newspaper article

th
Tied Up in Knots. The Economist 15 -
th
9 June 2001: 71.

An article without an author (unsigned)

AE FITZPATRICK
5
E56 Fitzpatrick, Garland M.
1996 Career Planning Encyclopedia
Americana, 1996

An encyclopedia article (signed)

AES FITZPATRICK
N547
1995 The Human Endocrine System New
Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia
1995

An encyclopedia article (unsigned)

 VENERE
Venere, Emil. Robots Are Evolving, Population
Is Booming Worldwide. Handbook of Industrial
Robotics. Ed. Shimon Nof. John Wisely and
Sons: Purdue News Service, March 2000.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNShtm14ever/
000114.Nof.robots.htm1

An internet article

LACHS
Lachs, Manfred. Reflections of Substance and
Form of International Law. Quezon City:
International Institute of Philippine Law
Complex, University of the Philippines. 18984

A pamphlet
 Justiniani, Felicitas R.
Personal Interview
15 June 2001

An interview

For a final word on the making of a working bibliography: evaluate your source
materials. To find out their usefulness, skim the table of contents or index of reference
books: their headings. And subheadings. Evaluate, too, their reliability by looking up the
authors background. If need be, sample his other works.

Discover, further, whether the reference material is a primary or secondary

source. A first hand report is a primary or secondary source. A first hand report is a
primary source: hence eyewitness accounts, interviews and historical artifacts, a
persons letters, private diaries, and speeches are primary.

A news account based on a primary source is a secondary source. The

information that you gather from your library research readings will most likely originate
from secondary sources.