fandomhigh | Libraries and Books: Highlights and Dangers, Tuesday

"It, um. Rather belatedly occurred to me," Jon said, fidgeting, "that while I had you write annotated bibliographies a few weeks ago, we never actually covered bibliographies. Or how to read them and the information in them. It can vary, of course, according to the style - different organizations have different orders they put things in, and sometimes different information they require - but I thought we could go over the basics."

He brought up a web page and projected it. "The first thing is that books, articles, and so forth each have their own requirements. And this page doesn't even touch on web citations, which honestly, it's a web page itself, you would think it would recognise that was a thing. Erm. Anyway. APA style and MLA style are two of the more commonly used ones, so it's worth it to know them. Once you get the hang of it, you should be able to figure out others you come across. So let's, um. Read through these, and I've got some example bibliographies, and see if you have any questions."

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In your own unique style!

Should you have had this one a few weeks ago? Probably. Look, Jon hadn't been trained in teaching, all right?

Look over the style guides and see if you have questions!

He's here!

APA style will be pried from my cold dead hands.

Belle

"Wouldn't it be simpler to just have one style, instead of competing ones?" Belle asked.

"Very probably, yes," Jon admitted. "But then you've got to decide which one to use, or which parts of different ones to use to make a new one. And that would involve getting entrenched academics to compromise."

Tahani al-Jamil

Josephine Jones

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