How to make up bibliography and notes?

Bibliography

Bibliography - it is a well-arranged list of text documents (e.g. books, articles, conference materials), graphic or sound documents, made up according to the standard criteria and concerning the precised problem.

We are starting to create our bibliography, i.e. list of literature references, when we are penetrating both: printed (e.g. catalogues, other subject bibliographies) and electronic information sources.
When we are collecting the materials, which we will later use to create our list of literature references, we will make first, preliminary selection. We should record and describe these publications, which are relevant to the subject of our searches and which we will use in our work as the source materials.
The document description should contain such essential information, which will let us univocally identify the information source, like: details concerning the author, full publication title (book, article, conference materials), place and year of publication; in the case of an article it is necessary to give also the title and pages of the journal, where this article was published.

At the last stage of bibliographical work you have to arrange your bibliographical descriptions, i.e. to set them in a scheme (arrangement).

1. The simplest way to make up the bibliography is to arrange all items in alphabetic order under the author or title headings (in a case of collective work). Such arrangement can be used when the bibliography is not large in volumes.
2. Chronological arrangement - according to the dates of publications - we can follow the literature development.
3. Subject arrangement - all descriptions should be divided into groups according to the subject criteria. This arrangement is based on the document contents. Concerning the problem, which is the subject of our interests, we should isolate narrower sections, i.e. subject groups corresponding with the relevant disciples of knowledge, to which the documents will be referred. The number of sections may vary, their range may be narrower or wider according to the quantity and quality of collected materials.
4. The isolated subject groups may be arranged according to the logical (sectional or systematic) or alphabetical order. In the sectional order all sections are of the same importance. The systematic order presents the main sections (superior), which are divided into subsections (it is possible to form the subsections of third or further degree according to the discipline of knowledge and the character of the collected material). The arrangement of sections and subsections is the result of logical division of the discipline or the problem being the subject of our research.

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