Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division. Simply put, bibliographies are lists of books and journals used in a research paper or in a publication. Bibliographies often appear at the end of books and sometimes even appear at the end of book chapters. Some bibliographies are so comprehensive on specific topics that they are book-length. Here are some examples of book-length bibliographies.
Bibliographies can save extraordinary amounts of time in conducting research.
United Nations, 1991. U.S. foreign policy and the UN system . We think of them as being too general to use for serious College research. Most College and University libraries collect a different kind of encyclopedia. Subject encyclopedias differ from general encyclopedias in that they have the luxury of providing in-depth, scholarly coverage of specific topics or specific disciplines.