In practicing citations for creating bibliography, here are some practice ones i did:
Pulsipher, L. (no date) Game design : how to create video and tabletop games, start to finish.
Meigs, T. (2003) Ultimate game design; building game worlds. London: McGraw Hill/Osborne.
2 contributions to a book
Bateman, C. and Boon, R. (2006) 21st century game design. Hingham: Charles River Media.
Fields, T. and Cotton, B. (2012) Social game design : monetization methods and mechanics. San Francisco, Calif.; Oxford: Morgan Kaufmann; Elsevier Science [distributor].
2 articles in refereed journals
To answer the question posed in the title of this blog post, bibliographies are good for providing the reader with a list of references, providing sufficient details for the reader to be able to obtain a copy of any particular item.
ReplyDeleteAn important aspect of presenting bibliographical information is to do so consistently.
The bibliography presented here (which seems to consist of four books and two journal articles, with no contributions to books included) shows a good start, but the information that comes out of the library catalogue or from Summon often needs to be checked and corrected, if only to fix the formatting or remove erroneous spaces.
The Pulsipher book, for example, was published in 2012: the library catalogue may have an error regarding the date, but a look at the book is enough to provide the information.
Try to provide the same information consistently: the entry for the Pulsipher book doesn't identify the publisher or the place of pulication, but the other book entries do.
The formatting for the two journal articles differs from the formatting used for the book entries.
Sometimes when text is copied, formatting informaiton is copied as well: I suspect that is wjhat has happened here. To strip out the formatting informaiton, paste the text into a text editor, such as Notepad, then select the text and copy it again and paste it into the destination file: the additional step will remove the unwanted formatting and the required formatting can be applied.
The Pulsipher book btw, has some information on design documents that you might find useful. Have a look at chapter five ...