Citation requirements

Just now, you practised recognising sources and the different types of sources. From here on, this course will be about creating citations.

Necessary elements
 

When referencing a book in a bibliography, it is, of course, logical that the following elements must be recorded in any case:

• the name(s) of the author(s)
• the title and perhaps the subtitle
• the date of publication

In addition, it is convention to also record the publisher, and the year and place of publication. If the work has been translated, the translator also deserves mention, while if the volume forms part of a series, the series title should also be recorded.

You may consider other information noteworthy as well, such as where the author lives, but such information does not belong in a bibliography. Everything that does belong in it is dictated by bibliographical convention.

The information that should be stated includes