The drop-down contains the commands: Insert Bibliography and Save Selection to Bibliography Gallery.
Style - Choose the style of citation to use in the document.īibliography - Drop-Down. Manage Sources - Displays a list of all the sources cited in the active document. The drop-down contains the commands: Add New Source, Add New Placeholder and Search Libraries. Show Notes - Shows where footnotes and endnotes are located. The drop-down provides the commands Next Footnote, Previous Footnote, Next Endnote and Previous Endnote. End notes are always placed at the end of a document.
Inserts an endnote at the end of the document. Footnotes are automatically renumbered as you move text around the document. Inserts a footnote at the current position. You can quickly display the "Footnote and Endnote" dialog box by clicking on the dialog box launcher in the bottom right corner of this group.
Update Table - Updates the table of contents so that all the entries refer to the correct page numbers. The drop-down contains the commands: Do Not Show in Table of Contents, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. The drop-down contains the commands: Built-in, Insert Table of Contents and Save Selection to Table of Contents Gallery.Īdd Text - Drop-Down. Provide an overview of your document by adding a table of contents.
And in case you’re curious, Pages can do this too, sort of you’ll need to install a plug-in to get some help, though.This tab gives you access to all the commands for creating references within your documents. If you’d like even more information about how this works, check out Microsoft’s article on the subject. Click the arrow there, and you’ll find the option to update the bibliography. Pick your favorite style, and away you go! Word will generate the bibliography for you and insert it wherever you’d put your cursor.Īnd one more thing here: If you then go back and end up adding more citations, you can click on your bibliography section to reveal a header. When you do so, you can click one of the options for how you’d like yours to look. You can then double-click any one of those to insert its in-text reference again!įinally, when you’re ready to create your bibliography, click either the “Citations & Bibliography” button or choose “Bibliography” straight from the Ribbon if you see it there. You can continue adding as many of these as you need, and if you want to reuse one you’ve already entered, just click the “Citations” button on the Ribbon (which, as I mentioned, may be underneath “Citations & Bibliography”), and you’ll see the ones you’ve previously put in. Once you pick that, though, you’ll just type in all of the relevant info, like this:Ĭlick “OK,” and Word will add the citation within your text. The “Type of Source” drop-down at the top is pretty important that’ll determine what fields you get to type into, depending on whether you’re referencing a journal article or a book, say. In any case, though, once you pick “Insert Citation,” you can fill out a form with all of the details on the reference you’re adding. Yes, “Ribbon” is Microsoft’s weird and fancy name for the toolbar. We’re going to click “Insert Citation” here (and this is also where you can change the formatting of your references from APA, for example, to MLA), but just so you know, you may see that button all by itself on Word’s Ribbon depending on the size of your window.