Amal Nagm

Create a bibliography in Word 2007

bibliography is a list of sources, usually placed at the end of a document, that you consulted or cited in creating the document. In Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can automatically generate a bibliography based on the source information that you provide for the document.

Add a new citation and source to a document

1. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click the arrow next to Style.
   
2. Click the style that you want to use for the citation and source.
   For example, social sciences documents usually use the MLA or APA styles for citations and sources.
3. Click at the end of the sentence or phrase that you want to cite.
4. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Insert Citation.
   
5. Do one of the following:
   • To add the source information, click Add New Source.
   • To add a placeholder, so that you can create a citation and fill in the source information later, click Add new placeholder. A question mark appears next to placeholder sources in Source Manager.
6. Begin to fill in the source information by clicking the arrow next to Type of source.
   For example, your source might be a book, a report, or a Web site.
7. Fill in the bibliography information for the source.
   To add more information about a source, click the Show All Bibliography Fields check box.

• If you choose a GOST or ISO 690 style for your sources and a citation is not unique, append an alphabetic character to the year. For example, a citation would appear as [Pasteur, 1848a].
• If you choose ISO 690-Numerical Reference and your citations still don't appear consecutively, you must click the ISO 690 style again, and then press ENTER to correctly order the citations.

Find a source

1. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Manage Sources.
   
   If you open a new document that does not yet contain citations, all of the sources that you used in previous documents appear under Master List.
   If you open a document that includes citations, the sources for those citations appear under Current List, and all sources that you have cited, either in previous documents or in the current document, appear under Master List.
2. To find a specific source, do one of the following:
   • In the sorting box, sort by author, title, citation tag name, or year, and then search the resulting list for the source that you want to find.
   • In the Search box, type the title or author for the source that you want to find. The list dynamically narrows to match your search term.

Edit a citation placeholder

1. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Manage Sources.
   
2. Under Current List, click the placeholder that you want to edit.
   Note Placeholder sources are alphabetized in Source Manager, along with all other sources, based on the placeholder tag name. Placeholder tag names are numbers by default, but you can customize the placeholder tag name with whatever tag you want.
3. Click Edit.
4. Begin to fill in the source information by clicking the arrow next to Type of source.
   For example, your source might be a book, a report, or a Web site.
5. Fill in the bibliography information for the source. Use the Edit button to fill in fields instead of having to type names in the appropriate format.
   To add more information about a source, click the Show All Bibliography Fields check box.

Create a bibliography