{"id":1859,"date":"2010-09-22T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2010\/09\/22\/mla-apa-chicago-microsoft-word-formats-bibliographies-for-you\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T04:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:08:36","slug":"mla-apa-chicago-microsoft-word-formats-bibliographies-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/mla-apa-chicago-microsoft-word-formats-bibliographies-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA, APA, Chicago \u2014 Microsoft Word formats bibliographies for you"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>[Author’s note: <\/b>Office 2010 Service Pack 1 includes updates to the Word 2010 Citations & Bibliography group. After installing the service pack you’ll notice the new bibliography styles: APA 6th Edition, MLA 7th Edition, Harvard- Anglia 2008, and IEEE 2006. Screenshots in this blog post have been updated to reflect these changes. Download Office 2010 Service Pack 1<\/a>\u00a0to update your computer.]<\/i><\/p>\n Did you know that it’s easy to create a bibliography based on common citation formats in Microsoft Word? I describe how, below.<\/p>\n But first, let me share one student’s story… the inspiration for this post.<\/p>\n A few months ago, we were asking students about how they write a research paper. Jon, a freshman at a local community college, had just completed a huge term paper that counted for a large percentage of his overall grade in a class. While describing how he wrote this paper, he told me he hated writing bibliographies because he couldn’t remember the proper format for citing sources. Unaware that Word has a built-in solution to his problem, he had turned to an online alternative.<\/p>\n When I told him about the citation generator in Word he said, “Word does what? Where’s that at?” Ouch.<\/p>\n In Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2010, you can automatically generate a bibliography of the sources you used to write your paper. Basically, every time you add a new citation to the document, you also create a new source that will appear in the bibliography.<\/p>\n Since it’s that time of year, again, and students are busy researching, gathering references, and writing papers, I thought I’d share this information with you. So, if you’re like Jon and don’t like writing bibliographies, here’s how you can insert citations into Word and format bibliographies using common formats, such as MLA, APA<\/a>, and Chicago-style<\/a>.<\/p>\n To add a citation after a quote:<\/p>\n <\/li>\n <\/li>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n When you’ve completed these steps, the citation is added to the Insert Citation<\/b> button, so the next time you quote this reference, you don’t have to type it all out again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you want to create a bibliography from your sources, do the following:<\/p>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n There’s one issue with the APA 5th Edition\u00a0citation style\u00a0I want to call out.\u00a0APA style uses the author’s name and publication date.\u00a0If you have\u00a0multiple citations\u00a0from the same author,\u00a0there is a known Word 2010 bug where the citation generator fills in the publication title when it’s not supposed to. If this happens to you, here’s how to fix the problem:<\/p>\n 1. In the Word document, click the citation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 2. Click the down-arrow and then click Edit Citation<\/b>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. Click the Title<\/b> checkbox and then click OK<\/b>.<\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n — Jennifer Bost Did you know that it’s easy to create a bibliography based on common citation formats in Microsoft Word?\n
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\nA few months ago, we were asking students about how they write a research paper. Jon, a freshman at a local community college, had just completed a huge term paper that counted for a large percentage of his overall grade in a class. While describing how he wrote this paper, he told me he hated writing bibliographies because he couldn’t remember the proper format for citing sources. Unaware that Word has a built-in solution to his problem, he had turned to an online alternative. When I told him about the citation generator in Word he said, “Word does what? Where’s that at?”
\nCheck out my full blog post to learn how it’s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[4035],"product":[4036,4075],"audience":[4087,4081,4101],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4883],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","content-type-tips-and-guides","product-microsoft-365","product-word","audience-education","audience-enterprise","audience-personal-and-family"],"yoast_head":"\n