Orientation Week: Bibliography Guidelines

For your Storybook project in this class, you must provide BIBLIOGRAPHY information on each Story page, giving your source(s) for the original story.

Printed Books Online. You are strongly recommended to use printed books online as the source for your Storybook material. There are literally hundreds of printed books you can use online with stories, myths, and legends that you can retell in your own words. Here's a listing of online books you might want to browse through, for example! When you are citing an online copy of a printed book, here is the information you need to provide:

• Story Title: If you are using a specific story in a book, you need to give the title of the story, in addition to the title of the book. If you are citing the whole book, you do not need to cite a story title.
• Book Title: You must give the title of the book, in addition to the title of a specific story from that book.
• Book Author: You need to provide the name of the author (or the editor) of the published book. If the author of the individual story is different from the author of the book, you also need to give the name of the story's author.
• Year Published: You need to provide the year in which the book was published. This is not the date on which the webpage itself was published. Instead, you need the year in which the original printed book was first published.
• Web Source: You need to create a clickable link that goes directly to the story you are citing. Do not link to the table of contents of the book; you need to link to the specific page with the story you used.

Story Bibliography example: You can arrange the information in any way that you want, provided that all the information is there. You can put the information in a single line format like this:

"The Gold-Giving Serpent" by Joseph Jacobs, from Indian Fairy Tales (1890). Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive.

Or, if you prefer, you can label each piece of information line by line. This is probably the best way to make sure you include all the required information:

Story: The Gold-Giving Serpent

Author: Joseph Jacobs

Book: Indian Fairy Tales

Year Published: 1890

Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive

Internet-Only Sources. If you are using an Internet-only source instead of a printed book online, here is the information you need to cite:

• Title: Please include the title of the story or article in the online source you are using.
• Author (if available): If the name of the story's author is provided, please make sure you include that information.
• Website Name: You need to provide the name of the website. Please note that the name of the website is not always the same as the website address. For example, the website at this address, www.maicar.com, is actually named "Greek Mythology Link Website."
• Web Source: You need to create a clickable link that goes directly to the story you are citing. Do not link to the homepage of the website; you need to link to the specific page with the story you used.

Example: Here is an example of a bibliography citation for an Internet-only source (notice that there is no need to give the date of access; I've never thought that was of any use, although I know some teachers require it - I don't).

"Death of Little Mikey" by Barbara Mikkelson. Website: Urban Legends Reference Pages.

Oral Sources. You may choose to collect stories from oral sources if you are working on local legends (for example, OU legends, Oklahoma legends, etc.). When you do this, there is a different kind of bibliography format you will need to follow. You need to provide the name of your source person, along with any pertinent information (such as your source person's occupation if it is relevant to the story, your relationship to the source person, if that is relevant, along with the age or approximate age of your source person). You must also provide the date when you collected the story. Here is a sample:

Story told by Joe Hilter to Megan Dilley on November 13, 2003. Joe Hilter, age 78, was an employee at the University of Oklahoma during the years 1950-1992 and is the grandfather of Megan Dilley.

Films. In general, films, television shows, etc. are NOT ACCEPTABLE as a source for stories in this class because your readers cannot easily compare your story to the original. If you want to use a film as a source, you need to check with me first, and you must have access to the film script online or to an extremely detailed synopsis of the film online. Make sure you include the link to the script/synopsis when you contact me about using a film as your source.

Indian Epics. For those of you in the Indian Epics class, here is bibliography information for each of the required books you are reading in the class, and which you might be using as sources for your Storybook stories, in addition to whatever online resources you might be using.

• Buck, William (1973). Mahabharata.
• Buck, William (1976). Ramayana: King Rama's Way.
• Narayan, R. K. (1972) The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.
• Narayan, R. K. (1978). The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.