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Conducting the Search
Keep a Working Bibliography
As you begin to conduct the search for sources, develop a working bibliography -- a list of the possible sources to be used in your paper. Whether you record pertinent information for each potential source on notecards, in a notebook, in a computer file, or in a documentation program such as WriteNote® (discussed later in BOOST), keeping track of this information will save you a lot of time, keep you organized, and make the research process go smoother.
For the working bibliography, remember to record information for all potential sources. Information to record should include:
- For books:
name of the author or editor,
title and subtitle,
place of publication and publisher's name,
date of publication, and
call number.
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- For periodical and journal articles:
name of author, title of article, title of periodical, volume number and date of publication, numbers of the pages on which article appears.
- For websites: name of author, title of document (or name of entire website), name of site, date of electronic publication or last update, the URL for the website, and date you accessed the page. If the information from the website is also available in print, record the information for the print version.
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