Hello,

I have a Phd thesis, which I have to transfer into Chicago style. According to the university where I have to submit my thesis, there are two formats of Chicago style - notes and bibliography (which as I know can be done in Word using endnote) and author-date. In my thesis I already have author-date citations which require bibliography.



Is there any way to automaticaly transform these in-text citations into bibliography at the end of the document in Word? Copying and inserting them into bibliography one by one requires a lot of time. I tried several options but don't seem to be succeding, I would appreciate your help

Although Word has so-called 'Chicago' citation and bibliography fields, their formats don't conform to either of the Chicago referencing styles.

Aside from that, MS also hasn't provided any tools for taking an existing set of references and importing them into Word's Sources.xml file (that's where it stores references).

Given the faulty nature of the Chicago referencing in Word, what I do is:
• create each reference entry manually, via References>Manage Sources>New;
• insert the citation and bibliography fields as per normal, via References; and,
• when I'm done editing the document, convert the fields to plain text so I can correct their formats.
It's a pain, and I wish MS would get such basic things right instead of foisting half-baked tools like this on the public, but the approach I take allows me to at least maintain the references in Word and the conversion process is quicker than doing each entry from scratch one at a time.

There is also a third-party Addin for Word, named EndNote (http://endnote.com/), which I believe does a much better job of the reference formatting and allows references to be imported from various sources. I don't know whether references can be imported from an ordinary document, though, and AFAIK doesn't make any use of references you might already have added to Word.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]