Creating Bibliography Cards: 
What Sources Did I Find?
 

The purpose of the working bibliography card is two-fold.  First, it lists the bibliographical information, that is, the information that identifies the specific resource.  Second, it gives a summary of the information within the source.  

You will find that not all the sources in your working bibliography cards will be used in your Works Cited list.  At this point in your research, you are still investigating, reading, evaluating, and continuing to refine your thesis.  You may find that the information within a source may not be relevant, and you will need to access new information.

Example: Front includes resource location information and bibliographic information.

	Dewey Decimal # REF 810.9 LIT Martin, Wendy.  “ Emily Dickinson.”           Columbia Literary History of the United States.           Emory Elliot, gen. ed. New York: Columbia           UP, 1988.  609-26. Print. Fairfield Public Library

 

Example: Back includes a short summary of the information which may be helpful to your topic.

	This chapter contains some of Emily Dickinson's life experiences which influenced her views of death in her poetry.

 

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