Bib Information
- Last time we discussed the importance of a Bibliography in a paper.
- Demonstrates that the author has a knowledge of the current state of the art of the field.
- Would you trust a paper which fails to cite an important foundation for the work they are doing?
- Plagarism
- Respect
- Tool for other researchers/scholars
- Bibliographic stiles are varied
- Some standard APA/MLA
- Standard for an orgnixation (IE IEEE )
- Or a journal or conference (IE SIGGRAPH
- Creating a bib
- This is not a last moment activity.
- It should be part of the first stage of research.
- IT SHOULD NOT BE DONE BY HAND
- Reference Management
- Begin by collecting citations as you collect papers.
- If I download a PDF, I save it to disk.
- I download, or create the citation at the same time.
- As you read the paper, create a note about it in your annotated bib:
- Google Scholar provides citations in several formats for given articles.
- Citation management database
- Annotated bibliography.
- Quick Word and LATEX demo.
- An Annotated Bibliography
- This is a working document which allows you to keep track of your sources.
- It includes a quick summary for each source.
- Assess if it is a good source or not.
- The contents depend on usage
- If it is for you, write it for your needs.
- If it is for someone else, be more careful, contemplative, and consistant.
- Check out these links
- My example of an annotated bib.
- I used this annotation package.
- I expect you to use the bib standard for the closest SIG/Journal/Conference to your area
- Or IEEE by default.