How to Use the References Tab in Word

A tutorial on creating works cited, bibliography, reference pages and citations using the Reference Tab in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010

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this video is going to show you how to
use the references tab in Microsoft Word
to add references and your work cited
page so go ahead and click on references
and underneath the manage sources
go ahead and click on that and every
time that you have a source you're going
to click new and put it into your system
you'll notice that i already have two
sources in my system if you're just
starting out
I'm you won't have any so let's click on
new you're going to pull down to what
type of source it is if it's a book then
you would follow the examples when you
click in an item you'll see over here it
tells you down at the bottom how they
want you to enter this so I'll just do
exactly
the authors that they show then
underneath the title you'll see you want
to capitalize it but no question of
metallic sore or anything like that
what year it shows you how to type in
the year the city again it gives you the
sample and the publisher ok if you need
more fields click on the show all fields
and there will be all kinds of other
ones in case there's an editor or it's a
multi-volume book etc you click OK and
now that particular book is the added in
i click new and if I want another one
for example if it's a journal article or
maybe it's an online it's a website it
will walk me through everything that i
need and again i can click show all the
ones with the star are the ones that are
needed if you have a quality source so
if you don't have an author on that
website it might be one that isn't very
reliable and some of these other things
so the ones without a star are not
necessarily used on a website and less
it's available
ok so now that i have on some sources
here let's see how to use those i'm
going to click close and let's see say
in
a paper right here is a source so i
click here i'm on my references tab and
I can insert a citation and I pick the
particular source that my book is on now
you'll notice only one of the books is
showing even though i have more than one
in here
ok here's my citation and I say you know
what I actually needed a different
source let me go to manage sources i
need to make sure that all of my sources
are over here for this particular item
ok i'm bringing pretending i need to add
another source here insert citation
you'll notice all of my sources now
you'll notice that it is last name comma
and the date and that's APA style if I
need MLA style instead i can pick em la
seventh or sixth edition which ever one
my professor wants me to use and so
whenever i add these sources notice that
there's no page number here are no date
here because that's MLA style versus APA
style which requires a date if I need to
edit this
it's a direct quote i need to add a page
number i just click here and I go to
edit source or I'm sorry edit citation
and i can add my page numbers in i click
OK and you'll notice it puts it in APA
style if I needed MLA I could pull up
here to MLA and it will change it to the
MLA fashion
ok what's up completely done I need to
put in my works cited page I'm going to
go to the end of my item i'm going to
click here and i'm going to first insert
a blank page
or i can just hit the enter so that I'm
on my last page then under references
look at how easy inserted by a
bibliography and there it is and is in
the correct style exactly how it is if I
don't want MLA I come down here to apa
you'll notice it changes the style
perfectly so that's how to use the
references tab in Microsoft Word to
create your citations and also your
bibliography notice that you can click
here and delete these things to hope
that helped you with work with MLA and
APA format using the references tab
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