2 Ways to Write Bibliography from Journals, Internet & Books (Neat)

In compiling a scientific paper, we usually need a source or reference that can be used as a reference in conducting research. This reference can be found on the last page of a work. This is known as a bibliography.

This bibliography contains general information consisting of the author’s name, year of publication, title of the article, publisher’s identity and publisher’s location written in alphabetical order AZ. Generally, bibliography applies to various types of scientific works, such as books, journals, papers, reports, theses, articles and so on.

The use of a bibliography has become an ethics that must be done so that we as writers are not considered plagiarism because we have included other people’s words, sentences or paragraphs. In addition, with a bibliography, the research carried out becomes more valid because it is accompanied by data that has been recognized as true.

How to Write a Bibliography from Journals / Internet / Books

Well, in this article I will explain how to write a bibliography from journals, internet and books using Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2021, 2021 to the most recent version.

Before going into the steps, you need to know that Word provides several reference writing styles, such as Harvard Style, American Psychological Association (APA) Style, Turabian Style, Chicago Style or a combination of various styles.

Each style has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, the ones commonly used by some research institutions are the APA Style and the Harvard Style.

Steps

The writing style that will be explained in the following explanation is APA Style. To find out the steps, let’s look at the steps on how to write a bibliography from journals, internet and books below.

The first step you have to do is open the document file to which the bibliography will be added.
Next, click on the menu tab References. in the group Citation & Bibliography, click Manage Sources.
Then the Source Manager window will appear, click the button New to make a list of references or more details as in the picture.
In the Create Source window, the information for scientific papers is written. To add references from journals, then in the “Type of source” section, select Journal Article. Type the information according to the journal in the field provided. You can also choose the language to use in the column Language.
If there is more than one journal author name, you can press the button Edit which is located to the right of the Author. Fill in the author’s full name in order, then click the button Add and you can fill in the fields again to add a second author name or so on. When finished, click the button OK,
Fill in all the detailed information related to the journal that you will add as a reference. Starting from the name of the author, the title of the article, the name of the journal, the year and the page. When you are done filling out, press the button OK.
Then you will see the display of the reference structure that you have added. To save the reference results, you can close the Source manager window by pressing the button Close.
Then, you can add a reference list into the bibliography page, you can select the menu tab section References > Bibliography > Insert Bibliography.
Finally, this is how the references appear on your worksheet.

Up here, you have successfully made a reference to the bibliography page. In general, the bibliography does not contain only one reference, but several even up to two pages containing a list of references.

Addition

Don’t worry, you can add further references by following the same steps as above. What you need to know is that you can use the entire reference list even if you have opened a new document. This is because the reference list is automatically saved in the Source Manager library.

Thus the article on how to write a bibliography from journals, internet and books using Microsoft Word. Hopefully this article is useful for you and you can try it right away. Keep visiting Nesabamedia for more information.