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Learn to cite your sources for a college paper or report.
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Quick reference
Citations and Bibliography
References and cited sources uphold intellectual honesty and avoid plagiarism in journalism and research documents.
When to use
Citation
A reference for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion, to uphold intellectual honesty, or avoid plagiarism. Learn more
Bibliography
A list of the sources and citations used to support your paper, typically 3 sources per paper in academic settings.
Instructions
Add a citation after a quote
- In your document, click the References Ribbon, Citations & Bibliography group.
- Click the Style arrow and choose a style.
This is usually specifically stated by your instructor as to which style he/she requires. - Click at the end of the text that you want to cite.
- Click Insert Citation and then select Add New Source.
- Choose the Type of Source
- Enter the citation details and click OK.
As you complete these steps for each citation, it is added to the Insert Citation button so you will not have to re-type it if you reference it again.
Create a bibliography (aka “references” list) from your sources
If this is a formal paper, you will include the Bibliography of your Citations. It is standard to place the bibliography at the end of a document.
- Go to the end of your document to the top of a new blank page
- On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Bibliography.
- Select one of the predesigned formats listed.
- As new citations are added, click the Bibliography Title and choose “Update Bibliography”
- 00:04 Citations and bibliographies are incredibly important to cite your
- 00:08 sources when you're writing a long manuscript, any kind of research document.
- 00:12 The purpose is to uphold intellectual honesty and avoid plagiarism.
- 00:18 First of all, I'm going to go ahead and
- 00:20 create a citation based on this particular website.
- 00:23 I'll just copy that text to make my life easier when it comes time to type
- 00:27 it all in.
- 00:28 Click behind the paragraph where I want this one to be linked, and
- 00:32 come up to the References section.
- 00:34 Now notice, the styles are listed right in here.
- 00:38 If you're in college, your instructor will tell you which one to use.
- 00:41 For this example, I'll use the APA, as it is the most common.
- 00:44 Then, I'll come over here and click Insert Citation, and Add New Source.
- 00:50 When this is activated, we have an entire list of different available sources.
- 00:55 Now notice, as I choose some of these,
- 00:57 all the fields will change accordingly to what I've chosen.
- 01:02 I'm going to go find the website one.
- 01:04 And I can start typing web, and there it is, Web site.
- 01:10 I'll paste the URL that I already copied right here.
- 01:13 And now,
- 01:14 I'm going to pull sections of it out to place in the various fields up above.
- 01:18 So I'll copy the page and paste the page here.
- 01:23 And then I'll copy the website section.
- 01:26 We never include the HTTP or the www in this part, so
- 01:30 just the name of the webpage.
- 01:33 Go ahead and type a year.
- 01:35 And down here in Tag name, I'm going to call these tags, these are web tags.
- 01:40 So when it comes time, I can search just for my web references, or
- 01:45 my book references.
- 01:47 Okay, I'm going to go ahead and click OK to finish this.
- 01:51 And let's do another one, okay, because I want a couple of them to show up.
- 01:55 Click behind this one.
- 01:56 Insert a citation, add a brand new source.
- 02:01 Drop the URL in here.
- 02:02 And again, I'm going to pull out the pages, copy them, paste accordingly.
- 02:08 In this particular case, I do have a www, I'm going to ignore that.
- 02:12 Copy just the website, paste accordingly.
- 02:16 Go ahead and fill out more information.
- 02:18 Please notice, there is a button, Show All Bibliography Fields.
- 02:22 And then you can scroll through and take a look at all the fields available.
- 02:26 I'm going to go ahead and tag this with web2.
- 02:29 And go ahead and click OK.
- 02:31 Now, let's delete those references and
- 02:35 build the bibliography down below the text.
- 02:38 Generally, a bibliography would be on a completely separate page, but for
- 02:43 ease of this lesson, I'm going to just put it right here.
- 02:46 It's very similar to the table of contents where we had a catalog to choose from,
- 02:51 same here.
- 02:52 I'm going to go with references.
- 02:54 I'll click this particular one, and there it is, it shows right up.
- 02:58 But notice the gray area, I can click into this.
- 03:00 And take a look at this.
- 03:03 I can hit the drop-down and choose a different design if I want.
- 03:06 And if I add more or delete some of these, I can just hit Update.
- 03:10 Now, I just said a curious word, delete some of these?
- 03:14 Well, what if I accidentally did a double one, or I completely wanted to change it?
- 03:18 Get back up to the References ribbon > Citations & Bibliography > Manage Sources.
- 03:23 If it comes to a point where you're working in here, you make sure to delete
- 03:28 from both sides, the left and the right sides, okay, make sure.
- 03:33 You can copy these, edit them, put in brand new ones.
- 03:36 You can search by author or by tag.
- 03:39 Notice I've got the tags showing up on the left.
- 03:44 Okay, I'm going to close this right now.
- 03:46 When I was going to college, we had to do this by hand.
- 03:49 We had to hand-type these things.
- 03:52 They gave us a book to teach us how to do it.
- 03:54 It took hours to write this part.
- 03:56 Now, I finished this lesson under five minutes, so enjoy your life.
- 04:00 If you're in college, enjoy it.
- 04:03 So much better than it was way back when.
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