What is Dissertation Bibliography?

 

Dissertation bibliography is the list of all the sources you use to write your dissertation. It is obvious that you us, or rather you have to use numerous sources to get information. The sources could be books, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, articles, websites, encyclopedias etc. You need to list each and every information source you exploit.

 

 

There are many styles to cite the references in your dissertation such as APA, MLA, Chicago, Turbian, Harvard, etc. They slightly differ from each other.

 

 

As you can see there are various modes of writing bibliography and you have to select only one suggested by your college or university. This is a general guideline to write a bibliography focusing on what aspects to consider of a particular source of information to include in the reference quote.
 
To Cite a Book

 

Write title of the book, writer’s name, publisher’s name along with edition number.

 

To Cite a Magazine

 

Write the name of the magazine, author’s full name along with publication date.

 

To Cite a Particular Chapter of a Book

 

Write the title of the book, name of the writer, and chapter with the page number.

 

To Cite an Article of Unknown Author

 

Write the title of the article and date of publication.

 

To Cite a Movie

 

Write the title of the movie, director’s and distributor’s name along with the date of

film release.

 

To Cite a Website

 

The most important factor is the URL of the particular page you refer and the date you accessed the page.

 

To Cite an Encyclopedia in 

Dissertation Bibliography

 

Write the name of the encyclopedia and its volume number and title of the referred article.