Hello,


I need to be able to add citations to MS Word that appear as 'author (date)', but I cannot find anywhere that informs me how to do this, probably as it is not a common citation method. I would be most grateful in someone could point me in the direction of an .XSL file that could do this, or how I could edit one to produce this style.

Many Thanks,
David

There are various established formats for Citations and Bibliographies, including APA, Chicago, Harvard & MLA. Chicago even has two different formats, but Word only supports one of them. To use one, you simply add the source to Word, using References>Manage Sources, choose the appropriate referencing format from the Style dropdown, then insert a citation and/or bibliography. You can change the referencing format to see how each appears, but a document can support only one format at a time.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for your response, but what I mean is I wish to create/edit a referencing style in MS word that will produce the required 'author (date)' citation, as opposed to '(author date)' or 'author,date' etc you find in the existing formats. I do not know if this referencing style has a particular name, I have not come across it elsewhere and I do not think it does, but being able to implement citations this way will save me some time.

The normal way of doing that is to edit the citation to delete the author details, which you then type outside the citation. See attached.

If you really want to create your own format, one that doesn't confirm to any recognised standard, see: http://bibword.codeplex.com/

Attached Files

Citation.docx (23.9 KB, 6 views)

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]