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The "How to Cite" Research Guide is an indispensable guide to citation manuals, citation management systems, avoiding plagiarism, and more.
See also the Quick Guides for the
Chicago Manual of Style: This provides examples for various types of foot/endnotes and bibliography citations such as books, book chapters, journal articles, websites, and more.
MLA: This provides an interactive template to demonstrate and assist in creating various kinds of citations.
APA: This provides examples for various types of foot/endnotes and bibliography citations such as books, book chapters, journal articles, websites, and more.
Annotated Bibliographies
An annotated bibliography is, as its name suggests, a bibliography that is annotated (or has annotations -- notes or summaries about each item on the bibliography -- what it is about, why it is important, and how it relates to your research project).
Here are a few places to look for examples of annotated bibliographies:
Literature Reviews
A literature review is, (similarly) as its name suggests, a review (or overview) of the literature on a given topic. Literature reviews can be stand-alone papers or articles, or sections of longer works (theses and dissertations or articles). Here are a couple of places to learn more about literature reviews in Anthropology -- please note that the first link (from San Jose State U.) includes a section that points to different kinds of lit reviews that exist, even within the discipline of Anthropology. This guid identifies the following categories of lit reviews: Traditional (narrative), systematic, meta analysis, and meta synthesis.