A bibliography is an overview of (almost) all publications in some category: To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website. ...

• works of some author
• publications about some specific subject
• publications published in some specific country
• publications published in some specific period
• publications mentioned in, or relevant to, a particular work (a bibliography of this type, sometimes called a reference list should normally appear at the end of any paper in scientific literature)

A bibliography tries to give a complete overview of the (important) literature in its category. This is opposed to a library catalog, which only describes items actually found in the library. However, some national libraries' catalogs also serve as national bibliographies, as (almost) all publications of this country are contained in the catalogs. Scientific literature is the totality of publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the sciences and social sciences. ... Literature is literally an acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has, however, generally come to identify a collection of texts. ... There are various forms of catalog or catalogue, each organized registers of some set of objects. ... Modern-style library itories and/or access points for maps, prints or other artwork, microfilm, microfiche, audio tapes, CDs, LPs, video tapes and DVDs, and provide public facilities to access CD-ROM databases and the Internet. ...

Bibliographies can be sorted in several ways, similar to library catalogs.

Annotated bibliographies give descriptions about how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument. Creating these blurbs, usually a few sentences long, establishes a summary for and expresses the relevance of each source prior to writing.

See also

• Ibid
• List of bibliographies
• Op cit

Ibid (Latin, short for ibidem, the same place) is the term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the last endnote or footnote. ... This page is a space for a list of bibliographies, or, more properly, links to those bibliographies. ... Op cit - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

External links

• Harvard Reference Generator (http://referencing.myquestion.net)
• Author Bibliographies (http://www.booksellerworld.com/bibliography-section.htm)
• myBiblio citation creator (http://www.mybiblio.brimonet.com)
• EasyBib (http://www.easybib.com)