Under Current List, click the placeholder that you want to edit.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Manage Sources.

You must add full information before they will be added.

Note: Placeholder citations do not appear in the bibliography.

Click a predesigned bibliography format to insert the bibliography into the document.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Bibliography.

Click where you want to insert a bibliography, usually at the end of the document.

If you don't have all of the information that you need about a source to create a complete citation, you can use a placeholder citation, and then complete the source information later. You can create a bibliography at any point after you insert one or more sources in a document. If you use a campus lab computer, or another shared computer, you may not see a Master List. This list is stored in a separate file on the hard drive, and is available in the Manage Sources menu. Note: Word creates a Master List of all sources used on that computer. To insert an existing source, select that source from the source list. To add more information about a source, click the Show All Bibliography Fields check box.

Fill in the bibliography information for the source.

Begin to fill in the source information by clicking the arrow next to Type of source.įor example, your source might be a book, a report, or a Web site.

You will need to fill in the full information before the Placeholder citation will appear in the Bibliography. A question mark appears next to placeholder sources in Source Manager.

To add a placeholder, so that you can create a citation and fill in the source information later, click Add New Placeholder.

To add the source information, click Add New Source.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Insert Citation.

Click at the end of the sentence or phrase that you want to cite.

(You only have to do this once per document.)

Click the style that you want to use for the citation and source.

On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click the arrow next to Style.

When you add a new citation to a document, you also create a new source that will appear in the bibliography.

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