Annotated Bibliography: an annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

What does an annotated bibliography do? 
A good annotated bibliography:

• encourages you to think critically about the content of the works you are using, their place within a field of study, and their relation to your own research and ideas.
•  proves you have read and understand your sources. establishes your work as a valid source and you as a competent researcher.
• situates your study and topic in a continuing professional conversation. provides a way for others to decide whether a source will be helpful to their research if they read it.
• could help interested researchers determine whether they are interested in a topic by providing background information and an idea of the kind of work going on in a field.

What an annotation should include:

• Complete bibliographic information.
• Some or all of the following: Information to explain the authority and/or qualifications of the author. For example: Dr. William Smith, a history professor at XYZ University, based his book on twenty years of research.
• Scope and main purpose of the work. Any biases that you detect. Intended audience and level of reading difficulty.
• Evaluation or why you feel this work is suitable for your topic

Literature Review: it is a product and a process.

As a product, it is a carefully written examination, interpretation, evaluation, and synthesis of the publisher literature related to your topic. It focuses on what is known about your topic and what methodologies, models, theories, and concepts have been applied to it by others.

The process is what is involved in conducting a review of the literature. 

• It is ongoing
• It is iterative (repetitive)
• It involves searching for and finding relevant literature.
• It includes keeping track of your references and preparing and formatting them for the bibliography of your thesis.

Purpose:

• Gives historical background to your research
• Overview of the current context in which your research is situated
• Includes relevant theories and concepts
• Introduces relevant terminology and clarifies how these terms are being used in your own work
• Shows how your work addresses a gap and supports why your research is significant and important
• What it is NOT! -- not a set of summaries of books, articles, etc. or a collection of paraphrases from these sources.

   

Interviews:
"Interviews fall into three categories: published interviews, personal interviews, and research participant interviews. However, only published interviews require a formal citation in your reference list." Purdue Owl

" A personal interview is considered personal communication and does not require a formal citation in your reference list. Any communication that cannot be directly retrieved by a reader is considered “personal communication. You do not include personal communication in your reference list; instead, parenthetically cite the communicator's name, the phrase "personal communication," and the date of the communication in your main text only. As an in-text citation or footnote (chicago style).
(E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2019).
If you reference personal communication in a footnote, as is common practice in certain fields and publications, you can document it in the same way. 1. P. Smith (personal communication, November 3, 2019) also claimed that many of her students had difficulties with APA style." Purdue Owl

Interviewee's First Name Last Name (identifying information if applicable), brief description of interview type to Interviewer First Name Last Name (or author), Interview Place, Interview Date.
Footnote:
24. Anastasia Morales, e-mail message to author, July 31, 2010.
 7. Andrew Macmillan (principal adviser, Investment Center Division, FAO), in discussion with the author, Seattle, Washington, September 1998.
(Camosun College)

Citing Tables and Figures

Informative information on Tables and Charts: Purdue Owl

APA sample figures:  Sample figures illustrate how to set up figures in APA Style. Note that any kind of visual display that is not a table is considered a figure.

PolicyMap:
APA Format: Title of map, dates. PolicyMap, permalink URL (based on data from ; date accessed).
Example: Availability of residential fiber to the end user (fiber optic) internet access in 2017. PolicyMap, https://plcy.mp/4NW2zSv (based on data from FCC Broadband Deployment Data; Accessed 29 September 2018).

Chicago Format: Title of map, dates. PolicyMap, permalink URL (based on data from ; date accessed).
Example: Availability of residential fiber to the end user (fiber optic) internet access in 2017. PolicyMap, https://plcy.mp/4NW2zSv (based on data from FCC Broadband Deployment Data; Accessed 29 September 2018).

Social Explorer:
APA:
Report: Data Table Name (Survey Year, Survey Name). In SocialExplorer.com. Retrieved from
Example: SE:T8. Age (Census 2010). In SocialExplorer.com. Retrieved July 25, 2018, from https://www.socialexplorer.com/tables/C2010/R11764616

Map: Title of Social Explorer Map [Map]. In SocialExplorer.com. (Survey Year, Survey Name) Retrieved from

Chicago Sytle: 
Report: Data source. Title of table, dates. Prepared by Social Explorer. permalink URL (date accessed).
Example: U.S. Census Bureau. Population Density, 1960. Prepared by Social Explorer. (accessed Jul 27 13:58:03 EST 2010).

Map: Title of map, dates. Social Explorer, permalink URL (based on data from ; date accessed).
Example: Population Density, 1960. Social Explorer, (based on data from U.S. Census Bureau; accessed Jul 27 17:16:03 EST 2010).