Chris,
Here's just one data point - by no means authoritative.
I've occasionally seen that two-list arrangement, where the "references"
section is for stuff actually cited and the "bibliography" is of stuff not
cited by relevant to the work.
Personally, I'm not sure I see the point of a bibliography (as defined
above) unless the point of the work is to provide a significant overview of
a field/area/discipline.
In cases with a 2-list arrangement, I've also occasionally seen the
bibliography be annotated with a short paragraph of summary of each work.
I've never thought of the 2-list arrangement as necessarily detracting from
the value of the work as a whole.
Hope that helps.
/fas
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Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
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On 30 December 2013 09:38, Chris Rust <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a question that I never imagined I'd be asking you guys
> but I would like to see if I can get an expert consensus about something.
> One of my PhD students is revising his thesis after his viva. One of the
> recommendations from the examiners was to provides his references in two
> lists: a list of references for things he is citing in the thesis and a
> separate bibliography for stuff he has read that is not directly cited.
> I think what may have happened was that he had some stuff in the
> bibliography that was not actually cited in the text and they picked up on
> that.
> This seems very odd to me. My own practice has always been that there
> should be a single bibliography and it is not good practice to include
> anything in there that isn't clearly cited in the text. If you have read
> something that has influenced your work then it should be possible to cite
> it in an appropriate way. Without doing that it seems impossible to show
> your scholarship in action and there's a real danger of people just dumping
> vaguely relevant references in there to make it look better.
> I'd like to take this up with one of the examiners but first I'd
> appreciate some feedback on what other people think. My main concern is
> that, once it's published, the thesis should reflect well on the student
> and the university, and especially I don't want him to go away
> misunderstanding of the point of a bibliography and passing that on to his
> students.
> Thanks very muchChris
>
> .........................Chris RustDriver, Nether Edge
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