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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”
- 00:05 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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