Citations and Bibliography

Quick reference

• 00:05 This lesson is about citations and bibliographies.
• 00:08 They go hand in hand.
• 00:09 A citation is simply, if you're quoting someone in a paper, you must,
• 00:14 because of intellectual honesty and
• 00:16 avoiding plagiarism, you must cite that source within the paper.
• 00:21 A bibliography is simply the list of those sources at the end of the document.
• 00:26 So we're going to go ahead and put in a couple of citations within these two
• 00:29 paragraphs, and I've got it all marked, and
• 00:32 then we're going to go ahead and build that bibliography at the end.
• 00:36 First of all, we're going to use this particular website as our citation.
• 00:40 I'm gonna go ahead and highlight that and copy it, and
• 00:44 I have a note here, delete this link after the citation is inserted.
• 00:48 So I'm gonna click behind this top paragraph, and
• 00:52 we're gonna go ahead and go up to the references ribbon, and
• 00:55 right up here it says insert citation with a drop down arrow.
• 00:58 Now on the drop down arrow we can say, add new source, or add a new place holder.
• 01:03 We're gonna go ahead and add a new source.
• 01:06 When you click on that, here's this screen, and it wants all the information,
• 01:09 but mostly it wants to know what kind of citation this is,
• 01:13 a book, a book section, journal, article, you can go ahead and
• 01:16 scroll through and read them all, but I'm choosing website.
• 01:21 Now, right down here, within here you're going to list all of the details.
• 01:26 I'm not gonna spend time listing them now, but you're gonna list all of the details
• 01:30 of this particular website, and I will go ahead and
• 01:33 put in the current year, and then you'll see, actually when this is built,
• 01:38 you'll see how it all looks and what happens on the bibliography side.
• 01:42 I don't have a specific author name, but
• 01:44 if this was a book I would enter that as well.
• 01:47 When we're done, I'm gonna go ahead and hit okay, and
• 01:49 watch what happens on my screen.
• 01:51 This little bit just showed up.
• 01:53 Now notice when I float my mouse over the top of it, it's gray.
• 01:55 Well that means it's a field.
• 01:58 Fields usually have tools in them.
• 02:00 So when I click on field, notice right over here has a drop down arrow,
• 02:04 when I hit that, I can edit the citation, edit the source, convert it to text, or
• 02:09 update my citations inside my bibliography.
• 02:13 So I'm gonna go ahead and leave that alone.
• 02:14 Now I'm done with this.
• 02:16 I'm gonna delete that line.
• 02:17 Let's go ahead and do the next one.
• 02:19 First of all, because I've provided the website for you,
• 02:22 simply highlight that website.
• 02:24 Go ahead and copy it,
• 02:25 and I'm gonna click behind this top line, where it says publications,
• 02:29 and this time I'm gonna go back to my references and insert citation again.
• 02:34 Now, notice it has the last one I just made on this list, so that way if you're
• 02:39 duplicating your sources, you don't have to build a new citation every time.
• 02:44 It will list them up here for you.
• 02:46 Let's go ahead and add a new source.
• 02:48 This, again, is a website, it remembers that I chose website,
• 02:51 I'm gonna go ahead and enter some basic information.
• 02:54 I'll edit these just like result looks different inside the actual bibliography,
• 02:59 and this is just the dictionary portion.
• 03:03 And when we're done with this part, I'm going to go ahead and hit OK.
• 03:07 My citation shows up where it's supposed to.
• 03:10 I'm going to delete this entire line, the blue and
• 03:12 red part of these inserted lines, and we're all done.
• 03:17 Now its time to go ahead and build that bibliography.
• 03:20 Bibliographies usually go at the end of the document,
• 03:23 your instructor's gonna tell you what kind of bibliography they want.
• 03:27 So go up to the references ribbon, I'm at the end of my document,
• 03:30 I hit the Ctrl + Enter to insert a brand new page.
• 03:33 So to insert citation I'm gonna go right here to bibliography.
• 03:36 Now the bibliography, you can have bibliography, references, works cited.
• 03:41 I'll go ahead and choose references, and there you have it, just like that.
• 03:45 Notice, when I flit my mouse over the top of it, it's all gray,
• 03:49 this means it is a field.
• 03:50 When you click on that field we have options.
• 03:53 Right up here I can choose a different style, or right here I can hit update
• 03:58 citations and bibliography, and it will do a new search throughout your document.
• 04:02 So as you're building new sources in there,
• 04:05 it will auto update them right here.
• 04:08 I cannot tell you as someone who went to school and college in the 80s,
• 04:14 this is golden because we had to know how to type these by hand, and
• 04:19 so to have them automatically generate for you is amazing.
• 04:24 It took almost as long to write our bibliographies as it
• 04:27 did to type our papers.
• 04:29 So congratulations, I'm glad this is available to you in this day and age.
• 04:33 All right, I hope that helps you.

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