How to Use bibliography in a Sentence

bibliography

noun
  • The book includes a lengthy bibliography.
  • The instructor provided the students with an excellent bibliography on local history.
  • Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.
    Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2023
  • Record of the first bibliography can be traced back to the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
    Ian Vorster, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
  • Migrant City is based on years of scrupulous research: the notes and bibliography amount to more than a quarter of the text.
    Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The soon-to-be president-elect emailed Meacham a bibliography of some two dozen titles.
    Susannah Jacob, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Indeed, Williamson boasts a large, best-selling bibliography — and yes, many of her books skew on the more, ahem, peculiar side.
    Caroline Tew, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Bank’s modest bibliography left a large footprint on best sellers lists at the turn of the century.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In addition to wonderful facts and stories about the people and places in the county, there is a 20-page index and a five-page bibliography.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • There is also a list of online nursery sites and a bibliography.
    Sally Peterson, oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2019
  • This, in turns incentivizes researchers to use (and abuse) their bibliographies as a way of advancing their careers.
    Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 11 June 2017
  • The trouble is, few of these anecdotes are attributed or footnoted, leaving it to the reader to guess at the sourcing from the skimpy bibliography.
    Peter Biskind, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2020
  • Add to this colossal bibliography the scores of huge tomes filled with Luther’s own writings in German and Latin, and the effort required for summing up his life and work will seem even more daunting.
    Carlos Eire, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Lin provides bibliographies of Chinese folk tale collections and writes thoughtful author’s notes about her heritage and her choice to use these stories in new ways.
    Emily Jenkins, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Thanks to Sowerby, Dimunation could do the obvious thing first: search through the library's own enormous holdings—which number in the millions—for the books in her bibliography.
    Jorge Dionis, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2013
  • But Reid’s advice, like her bibliography of grief-counseling books, is wise and useful.
    John Timpane, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And Marketplace of the Gods serves as a decent precis of the literature, and its bibliography is well worth perusing.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
  • His second wife, Leslie Getz, a publisher of dance bibliographies, died in January.
    Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Granted, this chart is not from The Fall of Rome, but that book has an extensive bibliography which drew me to research on long term trends in pollutant concentrations.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2013
  • And while the book was indeed mentioned in Putin’s bibliography, the report found that nearly 16 pages of the thesis were copied word-for-word from the textbook without quotation marks, page citations and footnotes.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The world is only now—thanks to Green and many others (see her long bibliography of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, time periods, and parts of the world)—really getting a handle on the true history of the Black Death.
    David M. Perry, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • When brought together, the installation becomes a life-sized view of this bibliography in the real — and not hosted in virtual.
    Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • These works, which have never been reprinted or translated, have since been excised from the Kundera corpus, and none of them appear in his official bibliography.
    Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Sears compiled an extensive bibliography on the marine life that contributed to bottom fouling, the kind of report that could save the government millions.
    Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • The subject cards contained descriptions of the item in addition to the bibliographies, often requiring multiple cards.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
  • The works cited in the bibliography are not all or even most of those consulted during the writing of the text, but those that soldiers are encouraged to read to further their understanding of counterinsurgency.
    Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2007
  • The bibliography at the end of the book, assembling all of the publications Tipton-Martin used as resources, is a collection of fantastic references.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • However, although there is a bibliography at the end of the book, Fiennes seldom cites the sources for his pronouncements about Shackleton, so there is no way to judge the veracity of his claims and we are left to take his perspective at face value.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • For further reading, purchase a fashionable pink and yellow scarf on which has been printed Slavs and Tatar’s extensive bibliography.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In one case study offered by Reed, an Egyptian limestone sculptor’s model was for sale in 2014 with a scant provenance lacking both an exhibition history and a bibliography.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023

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