MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

NoWastedEffort — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:33:39 GMT

Thanks for this post! This has really helped me! I had discovered the citation feature on my own, but was frustrated with its use until your posting showed me the "Manage Sources" menu and "Style" dropdown. This feature is so useful! Now we can focus on our paper's content instead of agonizing over the formatting of each Bibliography Entry. We are also free to use many more sources since they are automated. In the old days, there was significant incentive to use fewer sources to reduce the considerable bibliography complexity.

I'm also very glad to have an automated way to explore some of the different styles. Its also good to see some of the modern styles being supported. My favorite at this point is "ISO690 - Numerical References" Older ones unnecessarily obfuscate important source information. If you perform 2 interviews of the same person in the same year, most of the classic styles do not produce unique citations for the different interviews.

I'll post more shortly regarding subfeatures that would be beneficial to further improve this great feature.

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Frankie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:04:12 GMT

My last post disappeared. I am using Chicago referencing in MSWord. The position of the year appears to be wrong. It appears at the end of the reference citation in bibliography. This is how it looks like in MSWord :

Kotler, Philip. Marketing Management. USA: Prentice Hall, 2010.

But my university has taught me the year should appear after the author's name. Is there anyway I can correct this when using MSWord? Many thanks.

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Frankie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:29:13 GMT

I am using Chicago referencing and notice that the year appears at the end of the citation. Please refer below.

Kotler, Philip. Marketing Management. USA: Prentice Hall, 2010.

But my university has taught me that the year should appear after the author's name. Is there anyway to change this in MSWord?

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

suethomas — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:02:13 GMT

Hi, oddly this page won't let me comment as myself, just as anonymous, even though I am logged in. Anyway here's my question:

I'm using MS Word 2007. I have a 90,000 word book manuscript with bibliography and endnotes and I have 2 problems:

1. updating the bibliography takes ages and often it hangs so I have to restart

2. I created the bibiography in MLA 6th Edition but now I want to switch it to Chicago 7th Edition - however when I try to do that, it immediately reverts to MLA and then updates itself which means it hangs again.

How can I stop it from hanging, and switch the style to Chicago?

(Btw I tested on another document, and Chicago is definitely installed)

thanks

Sue

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

suethomas — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:58:51 GMT

test

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Lynn F — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:08:55 GMT

Love the bibliography feature but I'm having trouble entering book reviews and newspaper editorials as required under MLA. Can you help?

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Jennifer Bost — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:24:47 GMT

Thanks for leaving your comment, Anonymous. I've got some good and bad news. I checked in with the Word team for answers. The two problems you're encountering are actually known issues that the Word team is working on. Good news: They're working on a fix. Bad news: Unfortunately, that means I can't offer you a solution right now.

As for Onenote, there is currently no way for using citations in OneNote. I sent your feature request to the OneNote team. I can't make any promises, but at least we're giving your voice an opportunity to be heard. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your comment.

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Paul Freinkel — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:36:01 GMT

Hi, this bibliography feature has changed my life, thank you for a simple and elegant solution to a big problem. Two problems. 1. using APA 5 and APa 6 the author's initials are being put in the in text citation. This is a big headache, because I have to convert everything to text in my final document and correct it. 2. With multiple authors, I cannot edit the citation to say "et al" and have to resort to static text again.

Is there a way to use the citation feature in ONENOTE? I use onenote extensively to collate papers, and it would be very useful to link it to the citation manager master list.

Please help

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

kris — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:01:19 GMT

so please someone tell me where do i go to get this bug? I REALLY want it! it is the correct way to cite sources in Turabian/Chicago for the footnotes!!! Word has this great feature to keep track of references but we must manually retype everything in for the footnotes. I have over 30 sources for my paper. thats HUNDREDS of footnotes and a BUG does it correctly!

Please somebody help!!!

re: MLA, APA, Chicago — Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you

Jennifer Bost — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:46:18 GMT

@Damon: Thanks for your comment. You're correct. Unfortunately, the Word bibliography feature doesn't currently support footnote-style citations. You'll need to use a 3rd party solution instead, as you've mentioned.