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Bibliography guidelines

Although I am flexible about how you do bibliography citations, I would strongly suggest you follow the examples given below for web pages, books, chapters, and journals. However, the two most important criteria are completeness, and to be consistent from one citation to the next.

1. Web page

Author, "web page title", website title, url. Accessed on (date). Annotation (optional).

Example:

Kerry Magruder, "Is this a medieval flat-Earth woodcut?", http://homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/flatEarth/. Accessed on July 15, 2006. This website shows many examples of images that are derived from a famous flat-Earth woodcut first published by Camille Flammarion in 1888. The topic that interests me most about this website is the durability of visual rhetoric as it relates to the flat-Earth myth and the history of science.

2. Book

Author, title (publisher place: publisher, date). Annotation (optional).

Example:

David Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1992). This text is a readable and highly acclaimed survey of pre-modern science by a distinguished historian of medieval science.

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3. Chapter

Author, "chapter title," in author, title (publisher place: publisher, date), pp. # - #.

Example:

Claudius Ptolemy, "The Peculiar Nature of the Universe," in Dennis R. Danielson, The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking (Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 2000), 68-74.

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4. Journal

Author, "title," journal, year, volume: pages.

Example:

Peter Barker and Bernard R. Goldstein, "Patronage and the Production of De Revolutionibus," Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2003, 39: 345-368.

5. Summary of REQUIRED INFORMATION for citations in your Web Project:

• Name of author of a printed source or of the web page content (if known)
• Title of the source (required; if an online web page is untitled, you should give it a title)
  • If the source is online, the name of the website is required, if different from the title of the web page.
• Address of the webpage (its URL) where you found the story (required)
• Annotation: a brief, one or two sentence explanation of what interests you about this web page (required).
• Optional: If there is a relevant book, either an original primary source or a more recent secondary source, give the author, title and date of the work and a short explanation of its relation to the topic.

Be complete and be consistent!

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