Citations and Bibliographies Using WORD
Add a new citation and source to a document When you add a new citation to a document, you also create a new source that will appear in the bibliography.
For PC
Click the style that you want to use for the citation and source. For example, social sciences documents usually use the MLA or APA styles for citations and sources.
Do one of the following:
For MAC
1. Click on the "View" tab. Then click on "Citations." Make sure check in the drop-down box for the style of citation you want to use. Then click the + sign at the bottom. Select your source and fill in the blanks.
Notes
For PC
- On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click the arrow next to Style.
Click the style that you want to use for the citation and source. For example, social sciences documents usually use the MLA or APA styles for citations and sources.
- Click at the end of the sentence or phrase that you want to cite.
- On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Insert Citation.
Do one of the following:
- To add the source information, click Add New Source.
- To add a placeholder, so that you can create a citation and fill in the source information later, click Add new placeholder. A question mark appears next to placeholder sources in Source Manager.
- Begin to fill in the source information by clicking the arrow next to Type of source.
- Fill in the bibliography information for the source.
For MAC
1. Click on the "View" tab. Then click on "Citations." Make sure check in the drop-down box for the style of citation you want to use. Then click the + sign at the bottom. Select your source and fill in the blanks.
Notes
- If you choose a GOST or ISO 690 style for your sources and a citation is not unique, append an alphabetic character to the year. For example, a citation would appear as [Pasteur, 1848a].
- If you choose ISO 690-Numerical Reference and your citations still don't appear consecutively, you must click the ISO 690 style again, and then press ENTER to correctly order the citations.