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Bibliography

The list of works (bibliography) referred to by the student(s) is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name and placed at the end of the participant’s entry.
You must give sufficient information for your reader to locate your reference. 

 

Annotated Bibliography 

The annotated bibliography must separate primary and secondary sources. It must contain your brief comments on the usefulness of each of the sources.

 

 

Samples

Primary Sources: Unpublished
Royal Australian Nursing Federation (SA) Branch, now Australian Nursing Federation, Minutes of Council Meetings, 1956-1980. Useful for highlighting major issues and individuals concerned.

Eadie, Edith, (ed). South Australians in the AANS 1939-1945′, Mortlock Library of South Australian. Many personal anecdotes to illustrate general ideas.

Tapes and transcripts of 89 interviews conducted (by the author) with 95 nurses and two non nurses, now held in the Somerville Oral History Collection of the Mortlock Library of South Australian. Useful as for diaries, and for providing information not available in books and other records

  

Primary Sources: Published
Nurses Registration Act, 1920, and amendments. Useful for insight into details of issues associated with changes in conditions for nursing.

  

Secondary Sources: Books
Clarke, W.B. Researches on the Southern Goldfields of New South Wales (Sydney) 1860. Useful for details of early mining conditions and firsthand reports at the time about numbers of new immigrants.

  

Secondary Sources: Journal Articles
Kent, B, ‘Agitations on the Victorian Goldfields, 1851-54′, Historical Studies, Australia and New Zealand, November 1954. Useful for background to prejudice against Chinese and other minority groups on the goldfields.

  

Secondary Sources: CDROM
Frontier: Stories from White Australia’s Forgotten War, ABC & Dataworks 1997. Useful for the variety of resource material and ideas for further research.