Questions tagged [citations]
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Automatic parsing of citation text in academic references
Is there any software (or pseudo-code) which can automatically scan a piece of text (either pasted into the tool, or read from a .doc/.pdf) and identify citation data using standard formats? The data ...
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Is there an online citation generator with wikipedia citation formatting? [closed]
I am aware of numerous online citation generators that are resonably comprehensive in their databases and have a diversity of formats such as MLA, APA, Chicago, etc. However I have been unable to ...
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How do i get bibtex entries from Amazon.com
Has anyone written an interface through which i can get a citation of a book/paper from amazon.com
Thanks for the suggestions from fellow users. I'm updating the questions to detail in more specifics:...
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How to add a new Citation & Bibliography Style to Microsoft Word?
In Microsoft Word, there are 12 Citation & Bibliography Styles available as shown in the following screenshot:
However, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to add a custom or new Citation & ...
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Change Thunderbird's quote format to use greater-than signs (">") instead of margin/border, and bottom-posting
I'm a new Thunderbird user, I've decided to pick it up after changes in Yahoo Mail (so I'm open to suggestions of other mail clients too).
When I reply to an e-mail, I get the quoted text in a format=...
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How do I install Vancouver style for Word 2016?
How do I install Vancouver style for Word 2016? I've found a YouTube video instructing the user to search online for a 'Vancouver.xsl' file, but this vague instruction seems a way to introduce viruses ...
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Is it possible to insert citations in Microsoft Word by their tag name or any other shortcut?
I am using Microsoft Word 2013/2016 to write a thesis with 100s of references. It is very hard to find individual citations to insert them from the drop down menu list found at 'References' > '...
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How to make citations in a word document superscript?
When citing in Vancouver style, it is more common to display citations as 1 or (1) rather than Word's default of (1) when using the built in citation manager.
Is there a way to force Word to ...
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Mendeley - Exporting A Collection Straight to PDF or HTML
I'm in love with Mendeley Desktop for organizing my papers. I'm working on a survey paper and I want to send an updated list of the papers in the survey to my advisors. The best solution would be to ...
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How can I edit the Microsoft Word bibliography XML format in an intuitive way?
In Microsoft Word 2010 citation manager there is no possibility to edit the inline citation format or the bibliography format while the functionality is available through XML files.
Does Microsoft ...
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Merging citations
In MS Word 2016, is there a way to create multiple citations that will appear within a single set of brackets, i.e. using IEEE style?
For example [1-3] instead of [1][2][3].
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How do I make Microsoft Word citations hyperlinks?
So for cross references (to tables, figures, etc) Word will make the reference link to the spot in the document that contains the caption like you expect but it seems for citations it doesn't do this. ...
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How to force Word to reload the sources.xml file?
I converted some references from my citation management program to words sources.xml file.
The file should be located in the word user data folder. All tutorials say that just overwriting the Sources....
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Auto hot-linking in-text citations to a bibliographic entry
I'm trying to find the best way to automatically create hyperlinks within a document from an in text citation, "(Author, 2014)", to its respective bibliographic entry in such a way that is seen in ...
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Automatically insert citations as hyperlinks to their respective bibliography entry in OpenOffice?
I have found out how to do that manually for each citation:
unlock the bibliography for manual editing
Insert → Bookmark before each entry
then for each citation Insert → Hyperlink with the ...
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How to add reference numbers instead of names in citations in MS word?
I am using the citation feature of MS word. When I add a citation it is added as (Author Name,year) and the references at the end of the document are not numbered as well. I want to change the ...
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Visualizing document citations in a graph
Is there any tool which draws a citation graph for a group of related papers? (it doesn't matter the format of papers - PDF, Word, etc - it also doesn't matter if the software doesn't perform parsing ...
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Citations as text, not object - Word
I am using Office 365, and got a template in DOC format. When I insert a citation, it is added as text, not an object. When I say text, I can edit the citation directly. How do I set Word to insert ...
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Referencing issue in Word 2013
Every time I re-open my document on Word 2013, my references are not recognized, or to put it differently, my current list of references are cleared.
I'm using the IEEE style of referencing and the ...
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MS Word 2010: Hide citation title when 2 publications by same first author from different years are in one citation block
I'm trying to hide the display of the titles for two publications by the same first author from different years that are in the same citation block. By default, the title is shown in citations when ...
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How can I share references in Word?
Currently, some coworkers and I are using Word's default (terrible) bibliography generator, with no possibility of using any third party software.
How can we share bibliographical references with ...
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Word 2010: Remove space before citation
When I insert a citation into my document (testing with the IEEE 2006 style here), I end up with something like this:
This is some text ( [1], [2])
As you can see Word 2010 adds a space between the ...
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Reference manager for Ubuntu
I'm in dire need of a reference/citation manager in Ubuntu. The features I need the most are:
1) Metadata extraction/editing of pdf
2) Fetch metadata from online databases such as Google Scholar
3) ...
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Merging citations in MS Word 2007
In MS Word 2007, when I add three citations in a document, it shows up as
[1,2,3]
Is there any way to merge it so that it shows up like shown below?
[1-3]
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How to export all PDFs from a Mendeley collection?
I am using Mendeley as a reference manager and I would like to be able to export the PDFs from a collection to be shared with others.
I work with others who are not as tech savvy, and want to receive ...
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How can I include the article number in the bibliography of Microsoft Word? [duplicate]
I have an issue with the referencing tool in Microsoft Word. To cite a journal article, I typically have to add Authors, Title, Journal Name, Year, Pages, Volume and Issue.
However, some journals ...
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Managing Mendeley citations in Word without... Mendeley
I have been given a Microsoft Word (docx) file, and has a bunch of references internally. If I try to edit the references, they become grayed out and it seems there are no options to manage, edit, or ...
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Making superscript, numbered citations in Word 2013
Is there a way to have citations in Word 2013 appear as superscript numbers? I cannot find an included style that renders the citation in this way.
I know that the EndNote plugin can do this but I ...
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How create the following type as a cross reference in MS-WORD 2007?
I have written a research paper.The References Section has the references in the following manner:
[1] Author, Rest Details
The cross-reference section in word is not showing the above type in ...
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How can I stop Microsoft Word from changing my APA citations?
I am currently writing a report and I am using the APA Style Guide for my citations. So far when I added a new citation it would look something like this:
some text about citation (Author, Year)
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Including hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2013 references
I'm using the citations feature in Microsoft Word and creating a list of references at the end of my document. An example of the generated reference is:
USDOT. ITS Benefits Database. ITS Knowldege ...
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IEEE citation style word 2016: is automatic reordering possible, and if so how?
I'm currently working on my thesis in Word 2016 for Windows 10. I'm required to use the IEEE citation style and I want to have my bibliography ordered based on the order with which citations appear in ...
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How can I modify inline citation style in Word 2015 for Mac?
My professor insists that we use Chicago style of bibliography, but also wants inline citations to be in this format (Author, Year). However, the default Chicago style is (Author Year).
Is there a ...
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Papers2 incompatiblity with Word 2011 on Mac OS X?
I'm using Papers2 with Word 2011 to insert citations (citation magic) into a Word document. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8. I recently updated my Papers2 and since then, I'm unable to insert my ...
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Edit citation style Word 2016
TL;DR At the bottom of this post
So I know it is possible to change citation styles.
As base I'd like to use IEEE, the bibliography from IEEE looks really nice to me.
However, I'd like to change ...
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Fixing a CSL file that fails to print the date correctly in pandoc
I am having a minor but very irritating problem with pandoc and citations. In accordance with Pandoc's User Guide I insert the citation like this:
[@ChandrajitBanerjee12]
The applicable Bibtex ...
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How to replace or look for italic text within quotation marks
As a text editor, I often come across cases where the author has double marked quotations by putting them in between quotation marks and in italics. In almost all cases it is preferred to use only one ...
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What is the fastest way to add email / markdown citation to some block of text?
I often have some text block on a website a PDF file, etc. that I want to add email / markdown style citation to.
So for example I want to turn this:
This is a quote that possible is very long and / ...
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How to change font of all in-text citations in Word 2011?
I've got a large .doc file with 20+ citations. I now want to change the font of the in-text citations (so not the bibliography part at the end of the document). How do I do this fast and easy? I ...
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How do I set MLA citation style to use numeric reference in MS Word 2007?
The MLA citation style shows citations as (Author, YYYY) or some similar while I'd prefer it to style them numerically, like [1]. I have tried BibWord, I don't know XML.
Creating references that are ...
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Format of citations in footnotes in Office365 Word
I want citations in footnotes to look similar to the way they appear as bibliography entries. For example, I want a citation to look like this:
BRUIJN, J. R.; GAASTRA, F. S.; SCHÖFFER, I., Dutch-...
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I want my reference list numbering in square bracket numbering format with vancouver style in word 2010. reference is looking like [1] 1. bla bla [duplicate]
I want use the Vancouver style for my research article. i have installed vancouver.xsl file and all the citations within the text and bibliography are appearing correctly.
but the bibliography list ...
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Word 365 IEEE citation to include the author name and year
How can I change the IEEE XML so that the citation will be with author name and text "[1] McDonald (2011)" instead of just the number "[1]"?
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Microsoft Word shows citation in code field format
I'm using MS Word 2021 and EndNote 20. I'm writing a scientific paper that needs citations. but an exception happened now, which is like this:
The citation is showing up like field codes! I tried Alt+...
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Microsoft Word Citation Error - Showing the Article Title
I encounter this problem when I have at least two paper references written by the same person. I use APA format, and when you cite a paper in the document, the format should go: (Lastname, Year).
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word 2019 show source comments and medium
I'm trying to show some of the extra fields that you can enter when creating a source in word 2019.
This is how the bibliography looks together with an in-text citation:
The thing is, I've added a ...
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Word: in-text citing abbreviation is in wrong language. How to change it?
I am using APA citing style for my research, but I am having some troubles with the citing.
The language of my Microsoft Word is set to English (UK) but when I cite in-text with the page number, ...
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Trying to merge citations in word, but instead of (Gurven, 2004; Marshall, 1961) I get (Gurven, 2004 (Marshall, 1961))
I am trying to use Word's citation manager to insert citations into my document. I have a sentence which requires two citations, (Gurven, 2004) and (Marshall, 1961).
To be proper APA style, I need it ...
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Microsoft word how to reference a translation?
I need to use the Harvard referencing scheme in a word document.
I need to add a source which is a translation (by Kenneth McLeish) of an originally Norwegian play (A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.)
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How to get MS Word to use footnote citations instead of inline citations?
I am preparing a sizable document in Microsoft Word 2013, and I want to use the MS Word functionality for references. Imagine I have a book that the bibliography, Chicago Style, looks like this:
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