Thursday, January 15, 2009

Adding APA References in Word 2007

As promised, here are instructions for adding APA format references in Word 2007.

To add a new citation to your document:
  1. Click the position in your document where you want the reference to occur.
  2. Click the References tab.
  3. In the Citations & Bibliography section, select APA from the Style drop-down menu.
  4. Click Insert Citation.
  5. Click Add New Source.
  6. Select the Type of Source from the drop-down list.
  7. Select the Show All Bibliography Fields box (bottom left-side corner of the window).
  8. Fill in the fields. Note to Windows users: You can copy from a web page by selecting the text and clicking Ctrl C keys to copy and Ctrl V keys to paste.

To add an existing citation to your document:

  1. Click the position in your document where you want the reference to occur.
  2. Click the References tab.
  3. Click Insert Citation
  4. Click the Citation from the list.

To automatically generate a list of references:

  1. Click the position in your document where you want to place the list.
  2. Click the References tab.
  3. In the Citations & Bibliography section, click Bibliography.
  4. Select one of the examples and your list will be automatically generated in that format, or click Insert Bibliography to generate the list without a title.

Hope this makes sense.

Cheers!
Barb

2 comments:

  1. Hi Barb,
    Thanks posting a great how-to on adding APA references in Word 2007. Any thoughts on how to get the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) to save and post in APA format using Word 2007?
    Frank

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  2. Hi Frank,

    As I understand the formatting for APA, the DOI should go after the page numbers as follows:

    Rutherford, B. J. (2006). Reading disability and hemispheric interaction on a lexical decision task. Brain and Cognition, 60(1), 55-63. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2005.09.013

    Word doesn't have anything built in to capture this information, so here's the simple solution: if you don't need it to be visible, you can place it in the Comments field. If you want it to be visible, place it after the page number in the Pages field.

    It is possible to change the Bibliography programatically (I understand it's all done through an XML/XSLT combo. The XSL files are located here:
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography

    but I'm not sure where the XML files are located. It's probably more trouble than it's worth though.

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