Drafting your paper
Drafting your paper
You have searched through the sources of information at your disposal, selected the most relevant results and evaluated them. Now it is time to start to write your thesis and to organize all the information gathered and used.
2. Citations and bibliographies
2.1. What a bibliography is
A bibliography is a list of bibliographical references generally put at the end of a scientific work. It can contain texts that you have cited throughout your work, but also texts that you have used even without citing them, or that you consider milestones for a particular topic.
A bibliography is essential for every scientific publication, because:
you have to give your readers the possibility to follow the path of your research: you have worked a lot for it, why not showing the accuracy and validity of your studies?!
it is ethically correct to give credit to the ones who have studied a certain issue before you and whose results were determinant for your work.