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About this lesson

Learn to cite your sources for a college paper or report.

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Quick reference

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

  1. In your document, click the References Ribbon, Citations & Bibliography group.
  2. Click the Style arrow and choose a style.
    This is usually specifically stated by your instructor as to which style he/she requires.
  3. Click at the end of the text that you want to cite. 
  4. Click Insert Citation and then select Add New Source. 
  5. Choose the Type of Source
  6. 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. 

  1. Go the end of your document to the top of a new blank page
  2. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Bibliography. 
  3. Select one of the predesigned formats listed.
  4. As new citations are added, click the Bibliography Title and choose “Update Bibliography”
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  • 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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