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Learn to cite your sources for a college paper or report.
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Citations and Bibliography
Learn to cite your sources for a college essay or report.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation
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 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 This lesson is about citations and bibliographies.
- 00:08 In college-level papers, it’s absolutely appropriate and
- 00:11 required to give proper acknowledgement of where you gathered your information from.
- 00:15 Those are called citations.
- 00:17 The bibliography is in the gathering of that list of citations at the end
- 00:21 of the document.
- 00:22 So let's go ahead and build them right here.
- 00:24 First of all, where are they located?
- 00:26 On the References ribbon, we have an entire section called Citations and
- 00:30 Bibliography.
- 00:31 Here we have our Insert Citation, our Manage our Sources, your Style,
- 00:35 which your instructor will tell you which style to use.
- 00:38 And then of course the Bibliography section at the end, and
- 00:42 the Bibliography style.
- 00:43 So let's go ahead and start.
- 00:45 First of all,
- 00:46 in this particular paragraph, I'm just gonna copy the website reference,
- 00:51 and then I'm going to place it right at the end of this paragraph at that point.
- 00:55 All right, so, let's go ahead and click Insert Citation > Add a New Source.
- 00:59 Now these sources will change and
- 01:03 will actually, you'll have a list of sources in case you use multiple ones.
- 01:07 In this case, I'm hitting the source type and this is a website.
- 01:12 And so I'll go ahead and just paste the website source right there.
- 01:15 Now the name of the website is not the URL,
- 01:18 it's actually the proper name of the website.
- 01:21 And because I don't have an author, I'll just put Author Name Here, so
- 01:24 we can see the reference to that, and the year that I made this, okay.
- 01:29 And now I’ll go ahead and click on OK, and as you can see,
- 01:32 the citation shows up right here.
- 01:34 So because I wrote Author Name Here,
- 01:37 it just gave me his last name here and then 2016.
- 01:40 Now notice that this, when I float my mouse over at it, turns gray.
- 01:44 Cuz it's a field.
- 01:45 If it's a field, when you click on it you're gonna have field options.
- 01:49 And so I can Edit Citation, Source, Convert to static text.
- 01:53 I can update it, so you can click on any one of these items.
- 01:58 When I click Edit, I can tell it suppress the author, the year, the title, or
- 02:03 I can add pages to it.
- 02:05 It's up to you, all the changes you make in there.
- 02:07 But I just want you to know that you have that ability to do that.
- 02:11 All right, let's go ahead and get this next one.
- 02:13 I'm gonna highlight, oops, highlight this next section.
- 02:16 Had a little difficulty there.
- 02:18 Copy that, and then put the citation right behind this line.
- 02:21 And we're gonna go ahead and Insert Citation again.
- 02:24 See, the last one I made is right there in case I need to use it again.
- 02:29 All right, so Add a New Source.
- 02:31 And again, type of source is going to be a website, right there,
- 02:36 and of course go ahead and add all the information.
- 02:40 Name of the website does not include the URL section and
- 02:45 the year, month, day if you wanted.
- 02:48 At this point for this example, it doesn't matter.
- 02:51 All right, and so now I'm gonna go ahead and hit OK again.
- 02:55 Now I'm gonna delete these lines at the end,
- 02:59 to make it look a little more cleaned up.
- 03:01 And now, let's go ahead and create the actual bibliography.
- 03:06 Bibliography is at the bottom of the document,
- 03:09 you can put it on a separate page.
- 03:10 Generally, always, it is on a separate page.
- 03:12 So, to break the page right here, I press Ctrl+Enter.
- 03:16 Brand new page, there we go.
- 03:18 And now we're gonna go ahead and choose a bibliography style.
- 03:22 So, do you want the title to say Bibliography or
- 03:25 References or Work Cited, I'm gonna go with this top one.
- 03:28 And it happened that fast, look at that.
- 03:32 Now, notice again, it's gray.
- 03:33 So if I click on it, I do have options right over here.
- 03:36 I can change things.
- 03:38 I can update it.
- 03:40 It's pretty great, and I have to tell you, I went to school and college in the 1980s.
- 03:45 We didn't have these great little features.
- 03:47 We didn't even have Microsoft Word.
- 03:48 It took almost as long to type the bibliography on our papers as it did to
- 03:52 actually write the paper.
- 03:54 So, be happy that you have these features available.
- 03:57 And use them, if you're a college student, use them.
- 04:00 Thank you.
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