How to Insert a MS Word Book Citation into Your Technical Document
An MS Word book citation is a citation that is used to show where you found the information in your document. It is a must especially for academic books and papers where accountability and transparency is important for the author’s reputation.
How Important is a Book Citation?
A book citation is important because it shows the reader where you found the information and that you are not just making it up. It also gives credit to the author of the work. It shows how far back your research goes and if you are credible or not.
Citations are important because they can let you know if the book is worth reading, or if it is just a rehash of other people’s ideas. They are a reference to the book’s author, publication date, printing house or company, number of total pages, edition number, etc.
A citation is important because it gives information about the source of the information that the readers can check if they want to. It can also give details about how to find the source in a library or online, which is helpful for those who are looking for more information on the topic.
Follow These steps
To insert a MS Word book citation into your document is very easy.
Open your Word document.
Place your cursor where you want your citation to appear, select the References tab on your ribbon and then click the Insert Citation button to display the Create Source dialog box:
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You can click to enter even more detailed bibliographical information by selecting Show All Bibliography Fields check-box:
Click OK to enter your citation.
Click the citation’s drop-down list arrow to edit the citation itself or its source information fields:
NOTE: This MS Word feature can be used to insert detailed citation not only for books but for articles, films, patent, interviews, sound recordings, etc. Click the Type of Source drop-down list to see all the possibilities:
