The bibliography is an important part of any non-fiction book. Please treat it with the respect it deserves, spend the time and effort that it requires, and produce a useful and valuable final section to your book.
As you write your book, please keep your bibliography up to date in a separate file. Whenever you add a reference to your book, also add it to the bibliography.
You must present every reference in full (both in the footnotes and in the bibliography), so that the editor and the reader will have no difficulty following any given reference to find out more.
Please organise your bibliography into relevant groupings of references, for example “Primary Sources”, “Books”, “Articles and Chapters”, “Online Resources”, and suchlike. Under each of these headings, please list the entries alphabetically by the surname of the author (or of the first author where there are multiple contributors).
If your bibliography is a mess, then we will send it back to you for improvement.
It does not matter what referencing system you prefer to use to format the entries in your bibliography, as long as it matches your citations and is applied consistently and rigorously across the entire work.