Case Study: Sources Use and Citation

Michael Bess, the author of Choices Under Fire Moral Dimensions of World War II

1. The standards Bess include are the Author's name, the title of the book, the publisher, the date of publication, and a page number in the notes. The first time he uses a source he cites all the information. The second time he cites the same source he eliminates the publisher and the date of publication. The third time he uses Ibid, if the source is directly below the already cited Author and title.
2. The annotated notes can include additional information or information from primary sources.
3. Notes without page numbers are referencing a whole source, like a book, and not a specific page. The reason he uses many notes instead of one is that he could be dealing with multiple sources from the same author.
4. We are told the title and the authors of some of the sources but without the bibliography, we would not know specific pages that he referenced.
5. He integrates primary and secondary sources into creating an individual argument.