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American Sociological Association (ASA)
Annotations

Creating an annotated bibliography

in ASA style

The Publication Manual of the American

Sociological Association is kept behind the IRC

Desk on the Ground Floor.

General guidelines

Some annotations are merely descriptive,

summarizing the authors’ qualifications,

research methods, and arguments. Your

professor might also ask you to identify the

authors’ theoretical frameworks.

Many annotations evaluate the quality of

scholarship in a book or article. You might want

to consider the logic of authors’ arguments, and

the quality of their evidence. Your findings can

be positive, negative, or mixed.

Your professor might also want you to explain

why the source is relevant to your

assignment. Some instructors require you to

identify the authors’ theoretical models as

well.

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descriptive
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Battle, Ken. 2007. “Child poverty: The evolution and

impact of child benefits.” Pp. 21-44 in A Question

of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada, edited

by K. Covell and R. B. Howe. Waterloo, ON:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Ken Battle draws on his research as an extensively-

published policy analyst, and a close study of some

government documents, to explain child benefits in

Canada. He outlines some fundamental assumptions

supporting the belief that all society members should

contribute to the upbringing of children. His comparison of

Canadian child poverty rates to those in other countries

provides a useful wake-up to anyone assuming Canadian

society is doing a good job of protecting children from

want. He pays particular attention to the National Child

Benefit (NCB), arguing that it did not deserve the criticism

it received from politicians and journalists. He outlines the

NCB’s development, costs, and benefits, including its dollar

contribution to a typical recipient’s income. He laments

that the Conservative government scaled back the program

in favour of the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), and

clearly explains why it is inferior. However, Battle relies

too heavily on his own work; he is the sole or primary

author of almost half the sources in his bibliography. He

could make this work stronger by drawing from the

perspectives of others’ analyses. However, Battle does offer

a valuable source for this essay, because the chapter

provides a concise overview of government-funded

assistance currently available to parents. This offers context

for analyzing the scope and financial reality of child

poverty in Canada.

Kerr, Don and Roderic Beaujot. 2003. “Child Poverty and

Family Structure in Canada, 1981-1997.” Journal of

Comparative Family Studies 34(3):321-335.

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professors Kerr and Beaujot analyze the

demographics of impoverished families. Drawing on data

from Canada’s annual Survey of Consumer s, the

authors consider whether each family had one or two

parents, the age of single parents, and the number of

children in each household. They analyze child poverty

rates in light of both these demographic factors and larger

economic issues. Kerr and Beaujot use this data to argue

that

Rules! rules! rules!

The Publication Manual of the American

Sociological Association (1997) states the

following formatting rules, but check your

course outline in case your professor has other

requirements!

All text should be double-spaced.

Reference list entries must have a

hanging indent (to do this in Microsoft

Word 2003, click Format, then Paragraph,

then Special, and choose Hanging).

There should be 1 1/4 inch margins on

each page.

Use 12 point Times Roman font, or a

similar serif font.

Start counting pages on the first page of

text, but numbers should only appear

from the second page onward (as 2,

etc.).

Each paragraph should be indented.

The reference list is alphabetical by

authors’ last names.

When a work has more than one author, the

name of the first author is inverted (Lastname,

Firstname). The names of additional authors

are not inverted.

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