Ever have challenges with citing references, both in-text and in the bibliographical list that follows? Microsoft Word 2007 offers a references tool that may make this task easier. The References Tab on the MS Word 2007 Ribbon offers many options for working with references in a document.
The Table of Contents feature allows the automated building and updating of these contents, which comes in handy for larger documents.
The Insert Footnote feature enables footnoting with number tracking of each note.
The Insert Citation feature allows a user to Add New Source. The source information goes in via a table that defines the source type in a drop-down menu. These include book, book section, journal article, article in a periodical, conference proceedings, and report. These leave out a variety of electronic resources, multimedia citations, dissertations, and unpublished works, but these variations may be cited possible as some of the available sources, with revisions and edits done later.
The citation also includes the author, title, year, city of the publisher, and publisher.
This citation is then tagged with a particular name (usually the name of the author, which is typically what is cited first in most in-text and bibliographic citations). MS Word 2007 enables a variety of source citation styles and methods: APA, MLA, and Chicago. They also include some international bibliography citation styles and technical standards.
The References feature enables the insertion of tables and figures with captioning.
Those working on chapters with indexes may create index entries. This may make their texts more searchable and may link relevant ideas with the page on which the term exists.
A Table of Authorities feature allows the referencing in legal documents.
