Examples of Annotated Bibliographies

EdBBsnr
I've been asked to prepare an annotated bibliography of the research material that I used to prepare a local history book for a non-profit group. I have only the mos general notion of what this involves.
Can you point me to web-accessible examples that are good models - structure; annotations; whatever it takes to be considered a "good example".
I know that this may be akin to starting a religious debate, but I'm hoping to avoid a lot of false starts.
Thanks
Ed Bebee
  • adamsmith
    two things:
    a) this is a mainly tech support forum for one specific bibliographic software - probably not the best way to search for this - find a more broadly history centered forum and ask there
    b) ask the people who want the annotated bibliography what they have in mind - there are a lot of different practices, ranging from a sorted bibliography with comments on each work to a discussion of key works in prose. Any good popular history book (Hobsbawm's "Age of Extreme's", Zinn's "People's History..." etc.) has examples of the latter.
  • EdBBsnr
    adamsmith
    Thanks for the response.

    You're right, of course, that this is a technical forum. I've been using it to learn how to work effectively with Zotero.

    I figured that forum participants would be aware of what might be called "best practice" or "shining examples" of annotated bibliographies.

    There are lots of examples of how to produce a bibliography that meets various standards - APA, Chicago, etc. Most of the major universities have them on their web sites. I was hoping for something better.

    Cheers

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