Linked styles (which I dislike) should have nothing to do with this.

Can you save as pdf and import into InDesign from there?

Thank you for the quick reply.

While InDesign can place PDFs, I can't use that feature for this purpose. I need live text to be imported into the layout so that it reflows per my client's publication design, and so that I can apply the InDesign paragraph and character styles.

InDesign can import Word TOCs, indexes, footnotes, endnotes (the latter two as live or as static text on the fly), but there is nothing in the import dialog box about citations or bibliographies. What happens is they get flattened (converted to static text) but they take on the surrounding Word formatting of the paragraph; making it impossible to do any sort of Find/Change just for citations.

I need a way to apply a character style to all the citations in Word before I import the file into InDesign. That's what it boils down to. Is there no setting/dialog for what Citations should look like in Word?