A couple of books and a couple of contributions to books

edit: and a couple of journal articles too!

I've compiled a short bibliography -- just four items -- to show the differences, in bibliographical terms, between a full-length book by one or more authors, and contributions to an edited collection, which is the book equivalent of a compilation album.

[update: I've edited the bibliography to add a couple of journal articles that I located using the Summon search tool. I had to edit the JSTOR citation to make the author's surname the first item (surname, then initials) insert the date of publication in brackets, add inverted commas to the title, and then remove the line breaks and strip out some unnecessary guff, but that only took a few seconds. The only other thing I had to do was to change the font face and size -- "Helvetica" and "Normal" in Blogger's terms -- to make the bibliography consistsent throughout.]

It should be obvious from the way each entry is laid out which is a full-length book and which is a contribution to a collection. 

The contributions, which aren't published under their own title, but are contained within a collection, have their titles in inverted commas. The titles of the collections, and the titles of full-length books, are italicised denoting the published title. 

Note too that edited collections have editors (abbreviated to "ed." for one or "eds" for more than one editor).

The author's surname is the first item, and forenames are shortened to initials. The whole list is sorted alphabetically according to the authors surname. 

It's quite a straightforward matter to organise a bibliography (and there are some tools to help, which we'll talk about in one of our Thursday meetings), but it does require some attention to detail, particularly if the reader is to be able to use the bibliography to retrieve any of the items listed in order to follow up a reference or to find out more about a particular topic.

I took real books off a bookcase and looked at them to find the information presented below, and then I sorted the list manually. However, with a longer bibliography, that might not be so easy. That's where bibliographical tools and reference management software come in handy, but more of that anon.

 Bibliography

Austin, R. G. (1934)  "Roman Board Games. I". Greece & Rome, Vol. 4, No. 10 (Oct., 1934), pp. 24-34. Available online: Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/641231 Date of access: 31 October 2014. 

Austin, R. G. (1935)  "Roman Board Games. II". Greece & Rome, Vol. 4, No. 11 (Feb., 1935), pp. 76-82. Available online: Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/640979 Date of access: 31 October 2014. 

LeBlanc, M. (2006) "Tools for Creating Dramatic Game Dynamics" in Salen, K. and Zimmerman, E. (eds) The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology. London. MIT Press. pp. 438-459.

Piccione, P. A. (2007) "The Egyptian Game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul" in Finkel, I. L. (ed.) Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium with additional contributions. London. British Museum Press. pp. 54-63.

Salen, K. and Zimmerman, E. (2004) Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. London. MIT Press.

Woods, S. (2012) Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games. London. McFarland.