Bibliographical Things

Bibliographical Things

A fine evening to you, mortals.

So, bibliographies.

Bibliographies are, for those of you who don't know, a collection of information about a source of information created for the purpose of providing credit to the source, and helping other to find that source if need be.

There are many ways to format a bibliography; I have been taught one of the Harvard systems, and will be using that.

First thing's first, let's cover books.

A full-length book has it's information listed in the following order in a bibliography:

Author surname, initial, (year of publication), title of publication, Publisher, city of publisher.

So, for example:

Braithwaite, B., Schreiber, I, (2009), Challenges for Game Designers, Cencage Learning, Stamford.

Fullerton, T., (2008), Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Elsevier Inc., London.

Next, contributions to books; these go something like this:

Contributor surname, initial., (year of publication), title of contribution, "in" author's name, initial, title of contribution, city of publisher, publisher, page number(s).

More examples:

Becker, A. (2007), The Royal Game of Ur, in Finkel, I., Ancient Board Games in Perspective, London, British Museum Press) pages 11-15.

Bittanti, M (2003) "The Technoludic Film: Images of Videogames in Movies" In Nakatsu and Hoshino., Entertainment Computing: Technologies and Applications. Springer. 307-312.

And, finally, journal articles are laid out thus:

Author surname, initial., year of publication, "article title", journal title, month/season/part number.

Keighron, P., 1993. “Video Diaries: What’s Up Doc?” Sight and Sound. October. 24-25.

Gonzalez et al. (2013) "Learning to Stand in the Other’s Shoes: A Computer Video Game Experience of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict" Social Science Computer Review. 31. 236-243.

That ends my ranting on bibliography; hail Emperor, mortals.