Library:WD/AnnotatedBibliographies/WhatIsAnAnnotatedBibliography

What is an annotated bibliography?

As you probably are aware, a bibliography (also called "Literature Cited" or "Works Cited" page) is an alphabetically arranged list of citations usually located at the conclusion of a book, article or website. Citations provide readers with the necessary bibliographic information (e.g. author's name, title, date of publication etc.) to find the sources that the author(s) refers to and/or quotes from. To refresh your memory on how to write citations, check out module 2A. Similar to bibliographies, annotated bibliographies are also alphabetically arranged lists of citations. However, they have some important differences.