# Bibliography Help? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bibliography-help/163724 "2003-03-24T05:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bibliography-help/163724/1 "2003-03-24T05:27:32Z")
Hey Dopers, I need to submit a small bibliography and I’ve lost my notes on proper format. 1. “Bearing Down” The Economist. March 15, 2003: 13 “Off Target” The Economist. March 15, 2003: 14 Chapman, David. “Weak Base, Not War Talk, Cause Of Poor Market” Investor’s Digest. March 7, 2003: 13 Campagna, Anthony. The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War. New York: Praeger, 1991 Allen, Roy. Financial Crises and Recession in the Global Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999 Brand, John. ‘‘Economics 101: Turning water into wine’’ July 24, 2002 [http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=521](http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=521) “Bush Economic Performance Failing” Today’s Economy March 23, 2003 [http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/todayseconomy/ns01272003.cfm](http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/todayseconomy/ns01272003.cfm) Is that how it should look? I’ve never really done any bibliographical work before (first major paper I’ve written) and I just wanted to make sure things were listed right etc… ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bibliography-help/163724/2 "2003-03-24T05:49:10Z")
Hi, d12 Before anyone can provide any substantial help to you in this matter, you’d need to identify what STYLE of citations your professor/teacher has asked you to use. The main three are:[ul] [li] [Modern Language Association](http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html)…frequently used in literature, the arts and the rest of the humanities[/li][li] [Chicago/Turabian](http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html)…many “real-world” non-scholarly publications[/li][li] [American Psychological Association](http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html)…frequently used in education and behavioral and social sciences[/ul][/li] Once you’ve got the style you need figured out, the link will provide you with the proper format for your bibliography. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bibliography-help/163724/3 "2003-03-24T06:15:38Z")
Let me put in a suggestion to look into getting **EndNote** , a wonderful program that creates bibliographies from the info you input – in a number of formats. You can download a free 30-day trial version from [their website here](http://www.endnote.com/). That’ll take care of your problem for now, but it’s definitely going to be worth your while to learn at least one format by heart.