• Annotated bibliographies include citation information as well as brief descriptions, or “annotations,” for each source.
• Generally speaking, annotations summarize (What is the source about? What main points does the author make?) and evaluate (How useful is the source? Is the information reliable?).
• Different instructors have different expectations about what annotations should contain and how long they should be. Follow your instructor’s guidelines.
   

Annotated bibliographies should be formatted like a works cited list, with double spacing and hanging indentation. Create the citation, then begin the annotation on a new line, indented one inch from the beginning of the entry. Example: 
 

Simard, Suzanne. How Trees Talk to Each Other. TED, June 2016.

www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other. 

In this TED talk, Dr. Simard discusses the ways in which trees are biologically interconnected, and how they share information about things like soil nutrients, water availability, and more. I used Google to find out more about the author to see if she is an expert in the field and if her research would be considered credible. Dr Simard is a professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, and has written many papers and books on this topic. Although I know there could be other experts that interpret things differently from her, she is an expert in her discipline and her research is credible. I can use information in my paper as an example of nature’s interconnectedness.