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References and bibliographical entries
References and bibliographies show the reader where certain parts of information are gathered from. There are more systems and permutations than could be listed here; each publisher has a favoured system and rarely is there complete agreement between systems. A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, etc.) that allows a reader to delve further into a subject. There are also copyright and legal reasons behind bibliographies that I won't go into here. In general, if a quotation is taken from another source and is repeated verbatim, in abridged form or in sense, the author will show the publication that it came from. "Publication" could be misleading, as
any source can be listed – TV shows, unpublished theses, websites, personal communication and telephone calls are often cited in reference lists. The authors are usually listed in alphabetical order by surname (second name). Again, editors and publishers have their own ways of ordering. Finally, the references might be divided into categories such as books, journals, websites, public documents, etc.
A simple citation is shown below:
This is known as the Harv
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