Citations and Bibliography

Quick reference

• 00:05 All right, citations and bibliographies.
• 00:07 If you are in school and writing papers, you're going to be using a citation and
• 00:12 then building the bibliography off of it.
• 00:14 So let's go ahead and find out where those are.
• 00:16 In Microsoft Word, they're on the References ribbon.
• 00:18 There's a section over here called Citations and Bibliography.
• 00:21 You can insert a citation, manage your sources, choose your style, and
• 00:25 here of course is the Bibliography button.
• 00:27 Now, if you are required to do these,
• 00:28 generally your instructor will tell you which style they want you to use and then,
• 00:32 of course, you'd come in here and choose it.
• 00:34 I'm going to stick with the APA style.
• 00:36 That's pretty common.
• 00:37 And now I'm going to click behind the sentence where I want to insert my
• 00:42 citation.
• 00:43 Now, of course I did actually pull this definition from Wikipedia.
• 00:47 So I'm going to very slyly copy that.
• 00:50 Now, I'm gonna go into my Insert Citation right up here and add my new source.
• 00:55 When I click this, now I simply need to tell it, is this a book?
• 00:59 Now, notice all the fields changed.
• 01:00 Depending on what I choose, the fields will change.
• 01:03 So I'm gonna go ahead and stick with a website.
• 01:06 Now, the website itself is, let's see,
• 01:10 name a website is here and, wait, the URL is here.
• 01:13 Now, the name of the website does never include https, I wanna get rid of that and
• 01:18 then the page of the website is going to be just this section right here.
• 01:23 So you can really break this down to its proper levels.
• 01:27 So name of the website, and then page of the website, and
• 01:30 then the full URL right here.
• 01:31 Of course, I'm gonna go ahead and type in the year, and
• 01:35 I can show all the bibliography fields or get rid of all of them.
• 01:39 And notice I've got a tag name as well.
• 01:42 So if I need to look up tags in my document statistics,
• 01:45 I can find it there as well.
• 01:47 Then I'm going to hit OK on this.
• 01:48 I didn't put an author on that on.
• 01:49 So look what showed up, wiki/Citation 2020.
• 01:53 I'm done with that one.
• 01:54 So I'm going to wipe out that line.
• 01:55 Let's do it again on the next one.
• 01:59 I'm gonna change some stuff up this time.
• 02:01 I'm going to add this citation to the end of the first line.
• 02:05 Right back up here, Insert Citation.
• 02:08 Notice, it's got the last one I used 'cause a lot of times,
• 02:10 you'll use that same citation over and over.
• 02:12 It feels kind of nice it's on a list, saves you typing.
• 02:15 So now I'll go ahead and click on Add a New Source which
• 02:18 is going to be a website and I'm gonna put my URL here.
• 02:22 And I drop it again right here and get rid of the www.
• 02:27 And of course, clean it up a little bit more, get rid of this stuff and
• 02:31 put it in the proper sections.
• 02:33 And put on my year, this time, I am going to add an author name, author name.
• 02:40 And here we go, and then go ahead and click Edit.
• 02:44 So notice this time I actually have an author's name and then the year.
• 02:49 And let's see, get rid of this line as well.
• 02:53 Okay, let's build a bibliography.
• 02:54 So the bibliography generally goes on a separate page entirely, so Ctrl+Enter.
• 03:00 To drop me to the second page, and oh, the hard work to do this.
• 03:04 Click on Bibliography, choose which one you want,
• 03:07 basically which title you want at the top of it.
• 03:10 I'll go ahead and choose, I'm gonna click that one and there you go.
• 03:13 My bibliography is done.
• 03:15 When I went to college in the early 90s and high school in the '80s, and
• 03:19 I gotta tell you, we had to this by hand.
• 03:21 I mean, there were books on how to properly do citations and bibliographies.
• 03:26 Count your blessings that Microsoft Word has put them
• 03:28 all in one little group called Citations and Bibliographies.
• 03:31 It is so wonderful to get in here.
• 03:34 I want to show you a couple of more things.
• 03:35 When you click on the bibliography it's similar to the table of contents,
• 03:39 you get an update and you get options right over here to change them.
• 03:43 Also, when I come up here and I click on my citations, there is also a field with
• 03:47 a drop down arrow of things you can change in there as well.
• 03:50 So don't give up, right when it's in there doesn't mean it's done,
• 03:53 you can still adjust and tweak things as you need them.
• 03:56 So this is great, use this.

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