Syllabus: Bibliography Tips

Here are some Bibliography Tips for commonly used online sources for this class: Sacred Texts Archive, The Baldwin Project, Andrew Lang Fairy Books, SurLaLune Fairy Tales, Dan Ashliman's Folklore and Mythology Texts, and Bartleby.com.

Bibliography Tips: Baldwin Project

Almost all of the material at the Baldwin Project is previously published material. In order to find the publication information, there are two options. One option is to click on the author's name, and you should see a list of all the books by that author with their year of publication.

Another method is to go to the Table of Contents (see picture on left). Then, from the Table of Contents page you can click on the link that says "About This Text" (see picture on right).

Bibliography Tips: Sacred Texts Archive

Sacred Texts Archive is one of the most valuable websites that you can use for this class, but they do not always make it easy to find the publication information, depending on what page you are looking at. On the left you will see a typical page from a book at Sacred Text, and you will see that it does not have any clear identifying publication information. In order to get the information you need, you have to click on the "Index" link near the top of the page that will take you to the "Index" page which contains the publication information (shown on the right).

Bibliography Tips: Andrew Lang Fairy Books

When you are citing from Andrew Lang, you need to provide the Fairy Book title (Green Fairy Book, Crimson Fairy Book, etc.), along with the year of publication. If you are using the Andrew Lang Fairy Books website, you will find the title of the Fairy Book at the top of each story. You can then click on the title link to access the year of publication and other information about that particular fairy book. In addition, you may find additional information about Lang's particular source for the story. In the example provided here, he just says "Madame d'Aulnoy" - which is not a complete citation, but it is better than nothing - a little web research using that name will get you to this famous collection of French fairy tales pretty fast!)

Bibliography Tips: Sur La Lune

Many of the materials at SurLaLune are actually written by the webmistress, Heidi Anne Heiner, and are unique to the internet. There are also reproductions of previously published materials at SurLaLune, so please make sure you check at the bottom of the page which is where the bibliographical information is provided for previously published materials. Heidi Anne Heiner is the webmaster for this website, but she is NOT the author of the stories. To find the author of the story and additional information you should look down at the bottom of the story, where you should find all the information you need.

Bibliography Tips: Bartleby

Most of the material at Bartleby is previously published, and they provide extremely detailed publication information. At the top of each page, you will find basic publication information, and if you click on the BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD link, you will be able to access even more detailed bibliographical information.