Need some assistance with citations from Word for Mac 2008 to Word 2011. Let me explain my circumstance.

I write essay papers regularly. When typing in 2008 I can simply click and hold "command, option, f" and it will insert a numeral at the end of a sentence. Simultaneously it also inserts that numeral in the footer of the document. The numeral in the doc is hyperlinked to the one in the footer. Then from my citations list or resources I can double click the resource being cited and it inserts the necessary information for the citation.

In 2011, when I do the same steps on the double click it now only inserts the author and year in a parenthetical quote. I have to click bibliography or Works cited to get the full detail in the doc. That manner of writing is for research papers, essays written only in APA or MLA style, not the more current methods of Turabian or Chicago MS.



In 2011 there is options to choose which citation style one prefers. This nets no new manner of the citations being inserted. They all do the same, APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago. Looks like somebody forgot to make this work or there is a setting somewhere which I could not discover.

I am not a mac user, but I am quite avid on the Windows version. I'm not in front of my 2010 version at the moment, but I know there is a difference between an insert citation and an insert footnote. The shortcuts may have changed, but I think it's there on the ribbon still under references. You sound like you're trying to input footnotes, and not citations. I'd play with the ribbon there if I were you. Hopefully that helps.

Mark Gonda

Mark,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am not inserting footnotes. My citations end up in the document under a line that automatically is created once I insert the first citation. They are citations, hyperlinked numerals to the citations located at the footer (not in the footnote section) of the document.

When you say ribbon I'm not finding any selections in the ribbon that allows adjustments that changes the manner a citation enters the document

Secondly, there is not an "insert citation" from any drop down box. Maybe you can look at what I've copied here to see the difference. These are what populate the citation on a double click within the citation list.

Here is an example of a citation from Word 2008 using Turabian style

1. Thomas C. Oden, Systematic Theology, Three Volumes, Vol. 3, 3 vols. (New York, NY: HarperOne, 1992)., 721.

The same from Word 2011

1. (Oden, 1992)

Hi tatrier,
Cmd-Opt-f inserts a footnote. It does not add content to the page footer. The Windows equivalent in Ctrl-Alt-f. In any event, that's not what appears to be the real problem, which apparently has to do with the way citations are formatted. Which of the two formats you've described is correct depends on the conventions applying to the particular standard.

There are two forms of the Turabian style:
1. A footnote - bibliography style (widely used for art history and theory)
2. An author - date style (widely used for design disciplines)

From your description, it seems MS Word might have changed from 1 above to 2, though I can't be sure - I haven't used the citations feature enough to be proficient with it.

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Paul Edstein
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