{"id":2567,"date":"2011-11-01T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2011-11-01T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:27:31","slug":"bibliographies-in-separate-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/11\/bibliographies-in-separate-documents.html","title":{"rendered":"Bibliographies in Separate Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>If you are a student, and you have not explicitly been told otherwise, please don\u2019t put your bibliography in a separate document. There is no reason for doing this. 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