Home What is referencing? Email Me. Introduction to annotated bibliographies An annotated bibliography is a list of sources in which each item has been supplied with a brief description explaining its content and significance. What is a bibliography? Entries are arranged alphabetically by author or title if there is no author. Structuring your annotated bibliography An annotated bibliography is a listing of sources related to a particular topic.
Formatting your citations The entries in your bibliography should be ordered alphabetically by the author of the item. The Library holds a number of referencing guides and manuals of style, in print and online.
Writing your citations The annotation may immediately follow the bibliographic information on the same line, or it may be separated from the citation by one or two lines, possibly with a paragraph indention. There are two kinds of annotation, but most annotations will combine both. Assess its currency. Is it up-to-date? Does it matter? Assess its relevancy. An annotation has a number of similarities with a book review, but: an annotated bibliography consists of multiple works in each annotation the emphasis is on brevity and precision of description annotations are less personal than book reviews—reviews will typically address concepts or arguments that evoke strong responses from the reviewer.
The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Abstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal articles or in periodical indexes. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they may describe the author's point of view, authority, or clarity and appropriateness of expression. Creating an annotated bibliography calls for the application of a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research.
First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.
Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Lessons learned in year one of business. Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting , 30 4 , 26— This article describes some of the difficulties many nurses experience when transitioning from nursing to a legal nurse consulting business.
Pointing out issues of work-life balance, as well as the differences of working for someone else versus working for yourself, the author offers their personal experience as a learning tool. The process of becoming an entrepreneur is not often discussed in relation to nursing, and rarely delves into only the first year of starting a new business. Time management, maintaining an existing job, decision-making, and knowing yourself in order to market yourself are discussed with some detail.
The author goes on to describe how important both the nursing professional community will be to a new business, and the importance of mentorship as both the mentee and mentor in individual success that can be found through professional connections.
An analytical or critical annotation not only summarizes the material, it analyzes what is being said. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of what is presented as well as describing the applicability of the author's conclusions to the research being conducted.
For most of your annotated bibliographies, however, you will be writing analytical or critical annotations. This article describes some of the difficulty many nurses experience when transitioning from nursing to a nurse consulting business.
There is no mention throughout the article of making use of other research about starting a new business and being successful. Depending on your assignment, annotations may include some or all of the following information:. There are many style manuals with specific instructions on how to format your annotated bibliography. The style you use may depend on your subject discipline or the preference of your instructor.
Whatever the format, be consistent with the same style throughout the bibliography. Liroff, R. Protecting open space: Land use control in the Adirondack Park. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger. This book describes the implementation of regional planning and land use regulation in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York.
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