It’s not a simple thing to do, not for the faint of heart and definitely NOT anyone with a looming deadline. It’s possible to make your own Bibliography/Citation format or XSL. Make your own Bibliography format or style xsl files.įor those of you not up on your XML-speak, an XSL file tells software how to present or transform data for presentation. That list is made by Word from the contents of the \Microsoft\Bibliography\Style folder (for Office 365 Windows that’s \Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style) which contains a collection of. The in-built citation styles are listed at References | Citations & Bibliography | Style The makeup or arrangement of a citation (i.e the order of author, publication, date etc) is also called a style … to the confusion of many. Note: this is another case where Microsoft insists on using the word ‘style’ for something other than formatting Styles in Word.
See: Add a Bibliography to Word documents It’s possible to add your own custom formats to suit your needs.įirst, a quick look at how Word figures out how to format or arrange a citation.
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