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| Person who wrote the book, chapter, article or takes responsibility for writing up a web page or site. |
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| This is when a government department or organisation takes responsibility for the information written in a source. Examples:- Qld dept of health OR Australia Zoo OR Greenpeace OR Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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| A symbol followed usually by a year denotes that someone or some body has the rights to the intellectual property or creative output in a resource. |
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This is important to acknowledge for print resources. For example:-
well known cities with no further information Sydney :
OR a country town OR suburb would read
Bondi Beach, NSW :
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Dubbo, NSW : |
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| Publishers finalize resources for them to be sold by editing and promoting the item. |
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| Word used to say you got it from somewhere. Used before the URL or web address for online information. |
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| Name of book, journal article, DVD, TV broadcast, web page or web document ++++ |
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| Abbreviation for NO DATE, when you are unable to locate the copyright or publication date in any format. |
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| The order the bibliography should appear in is A-Z by author, if no author then the first word of the Title, excluding A, An or The. #s like 100 Great.... go to the top of the list |
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| This is the method or style that is used at our school. Look for this label in drop down menus on sites that assist you write bibliographies. |
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| Mostly found in a book and usually has the copyright symbol and year and is the page to use to find all the other pieces of information for your bibliography entry. |
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| Usually has the title, author/s names & publisher's logo. Can be used to confirm who is the publisher by comparing logo with the imprint page. Try to use the IMPRINT page 1st. |
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| Copying other people's ideas, images or written text without giving them credit. This is cheating and a breach of copyright. |
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| When you list the sources you consulted in your research or report. This is also called referencing. |
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| Abbreviation for Universal Resource Locator. Some call this the web address. |
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| eg DVD, TV broadcast and these appear in square brackets after the title [TV broadcast] |
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| Last update OR Last modified |
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| Found on web pages, sites or documents - can be written (2008, Apr 4)OR (2008) OR (2008, Apr) Give as much detail as you can find in one of these formats. |
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| Reprinted date - ignore this for your bibliography |
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| Caption for graphic references |
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| A label that should be positioned as closely as possible to the map, chart, graph, table or picture you have included in your work. The caption needs to state what the image is (maybe the title) and its source. |
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| Abbreviation for editor or edition. Editors can be found in books where there are many authors and the editor is the main author &/or editor. Editions happen when sources have their information substantially changed in each edition. eg First published 2007, this 2nd ed. 2010 |
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