Annotated Bibliography Template printable pdf download

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Assignment

Annotated Bibliography

(Below are sample entries for books, magazine/journal articles, and Web pages. You probably

won’t need every type of entry for your paper. Find the entry below that best matches the source

you used for your paper. Highlight each section and type in the appropriate information. If you

have several sources of the same kind, copy and paste as necessary. After all your items are

entered, rearrange the items so the final version is in alphabetical order. Don’t forget to save this

to your own disk (often!), and be sure you remove gray text such as this.)

The first seven examples are for books or chapters in a book:

Last Name, First Name. Title of a Book With One Author, Title Underlined or Italicized, With

Significant Words Capitalized. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Highlight this passage and replace it with your annotation. In a descriptive annotation,

you merely describe what the book, web page, or article is about. In a critical

bibliography, you provide a descriptive annotation, and you evaluate the success or

reliability of the book, web page, or article. You might also compare or contrast the

source with another source on the topic…Notice that in this template, the annotation is

indented and single spaced.

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book in a Second Edition. 2nd ed. Place of Publication:

Publisher, Year of Publication.

Highlight this passage and replace it with your annotation. If you paste citation

information into this template from a Web page, Word will over-ride this template and

try to replicate whatever format appeared on the Web page,. This is only one of many

annoyingly “helpful” things Word does. The way around it is to copy from the Web page

as usual, and select “Paste Special” from the Edit menu. In “Paste Special,” choose

“unformatted text,” and you’ll be good to go.

Title of a Book Without an Author, Title Underlined or Italicized. Place of Publication:

Publisher, Year of Publication.

Annotated Bibliography Template