I am working on a paper and trying to use the Citations & Bibliography feature in Word 2010. There is a list of available styles, but no documentation I can find about what these styles look like. I have examples of the style that the journal requires, but there is nothing that names the style. I have other papers with styles similar to what I need, but when I open these in word 2010, the style is just listed as "unknown" in the style list.



Is there a writeup on what each of the available styles looks like? It is very odd to just list a style as "GB7714 2005" and expect that everyone should know what that is. Searching on GB7714 2005 in the help does not return any useful results. I have seen many other styles available at BibWord, but there are no examples of what these styles look like on their site either.

Is there some way to import a reference style from an existing paper?

Thanks,

LMHmedchem

The documentation for the various referencing formats are maintained by the organisations that developed them. See, for example: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/...tionguide.html
Do note that Word's compliance with these Styles is far from perfect. With the Chicago Manual of Style, for example, dates appear in the wrong place in bibliography entries and Word inserts comma separators between multiple citations instead of semi-colons.

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Thank you for the information, I have something that I think is close. I hope I don't have to end up editing the xml to get it right.

Is there a way to enter a range or group of citations such as [3-7]? This is of course very common in publications but I don't see any obvious way to do that.

LMHmedchem

The only referencing Style I know of that would support such a scheme is 'ISO 690 - Numerical Reference'. Is that what you're using? Or are you using references in footnotes and simply want to cross-reference the footnote numbers?

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This is a journal article, almost all of which use a numerical in text notation. Often the in text notation is a superscript number, but in this case the number is in square brackets. I am currently using ISO 960 - Numeric Reference with Square Brackets for the style.

This is fine if the reference is [1], but there are many references where the reference should look like, [2-6]. My only current option is to do [2][3][4][5][6], which is somewhat absurd for a publication. There are also cases like,[2-5,7,11]. Is there any way to manage this in a more reasonable fashion?

LMHmedchem

To reference a series of citations, you'd need to cross-reference the first & last items and insert your own hyphen between them. That would result in [2]-[6], which may be acceptable; if not one can play around with the cross-reference field codes to reduce them to 2-6, which you could then enclose in square brackets.

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