Classics

17. Bibliographies

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Quick points:
  1. The purpose of a bibliography is for your reader to be able to locate your source as easily as possible.
  2. Your bibliography should come on a separate page at the end of your text.
  3. You must list, in the bibliography, every book you cite, whether you quote from it directly or just take ideas from it. This is important. You need to acknowledge others' ideas as well as their words. For example: Bembo himself appears in a piece of literature by Castiglione (Kraye, 1988).
  4. List primary and secondary sources separately.
  5. List both primary and secondary sources in alphabetical order, by author surname (or simply author name, if the author has only one, e.g. Herodotus, Homer, Virgil, Xenophon).
  6. Leave a space between each bibliographical entry.
Systems:

We prefer the Harvard, or author/date system, as it is simpler to use than many other referencing systems. Here are the guidelines for your bibliography, with examples of books, journals, papers in collected volumes of essays and on-line resources.
For more information about the Harvard system, this website is helpful:
http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf

You'll find instructions for author/date in-text referencing in the section titled 'Referencing within your text'.


How to cite sources in your bibliography:

Primary sources:
work standing alone:
Herodotus, The Histories, trans. A. de Selincourt (Harmondsworth, 1988)

work in an anthology:
Sophocles, Antigone, in D. Grene & Lattimore (trans.) Greek Tragedies, volume 1, 2nd edition (Chicago, 1992)

Secondary sources

Book - not all books will require all these bits of information.
Journal - choose the information relevant to the source
Zanker, G. (1992) 'Sophocles's Ajax and the Heroic Values of the Iliad', CQ 42: 20-25
(N.B. Italicise book titles wherever they appear. CQ is an accepted abbreviation for Classical Quarterly.)

Paper in volume of collected essays - choose the information relevant to the source

Lendon, J.E. (2000) 'Homeric Vengeance and the Outbreak of Greek Wars' in H. van Wees (ed.) War and Violence in Ancient Greece (London), 1-30

On-line resources: list as appropriate, remembering that the point of a bibliography is for a reader to be able to find your source easily.
Thomas E. Jenkins, review of Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal (trans.), Euripides: Bakkhai. The Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Oxford, 2001) http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001/2001-07-19.html. Visited on 08/09/2010

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