Reference
- Lynda Lesson
- This section is important.
- He is working in an older version, but it is still very applicable.
- It will look a little different however.
- Pay attention to the example box when adding a citation.
- For the next few sections, I will be using this document.
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- This material is from pages 272-273 of your book.
- In some disciplines, footnotes or endnotes are a very common way to add annotations to the text.
- A footnote appears at the bottom of the page.
- An endnote appears at the end of the document, or chapter.
- Footnotes are accessed through the REFERENCEtab.
- Use the Footnotes section of the ribbon.
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- Let's Add a footnote to after From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Place the cursor after the word encyclopedia
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- Click on the Insert Footnote button
- Or type <alt> <ctrl> F
- This will move the cursor to the footer, with the footnote number
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- Type Retrieved from Wikipedia.org on Sept 30, 2014
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- We can add an endnote the same way.
- Move the cursor right after Erdos in the first paragraph.
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- Click on the Insert Endnote button
- Or type <alt> <ctrl> D
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- This will take you to the end of the document
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- Type Paul Erdos was an itinerant mathematician who spent most of his life traveling from university to university collaborating with others to produce research papers.
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- Notice that both the footnote and the endnote produced the proper mark in the document.
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- You can change numbering and other properties of footnotes and endnotes throughout the Footnote and Endnote dialog box
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- Position
- Footnotes: after text or at the bottom of the page
- Endnotes: End of document or end of section.
- The Convert button lets you convert
- Footnotes to endnotes
- Endnotes to footnotes
- Swap footnotes and endnotes
- Indexes and Cross References
- This is from pages 264 - 265 of your book.
- A cross reference provides the reader with instructions on where find more information.
- Let's insert a cross reference in our document.
- Go to the last page, last paragraph.
- Type in (See the definition of the Erdos-Bacon number on page ) as shown in the following picture.
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- move the cursor after the word on page and before the ).
- Go to the Captions section of the ribbon under the REFERENCEStab.
- Select Cross-reference
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- This will bring up the Cross Reference dialog box.
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- The Reference Type lets us select what we will reference.
- In this case, we will reference the heading Introduction
- But we could reference other items
- Please examine the choices in this menu.
- The Insert Reference To allows us options of what we will reference
- Again we can link to many things.
- In this case, select page number.
- Please examine the choices in this menu.
- Select Insert.
- This will insert the page number, which in this case is 1.
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- Hovering over this new cross reference will show the following pop-up
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- And you can press <Ctrl and click the mouse button to move to that place in the document.
- Updating a cross reference
- This is the main reason to use the cross-reference tool.
- Insert a page break between the title and the Introduction (moving the introduction to page 2)
- Move back to the cross reference and highlight it.
- Right click and select update field
- It should now change to page 2.
- You can also accomplish this by selecting the entire document and performing the same procedure.
- Creating An Index
- An index provides the reader with a handy method for finding important terms..
- Page 265 -268 of your book.
- Let's build an index of some of the people in the document.
- Begin by marking entries for the index.
- First, navigate to the second page and highlight Paul Erdos
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- Go to the REFERENCES tab and find the Index section.
- Click on the Mark Entry button.
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- This will bring up the Mark Index Entry dialog box.
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- We want to mark all occurrences of this name in our index so select Mark All
- Repeat this with Kevin Bacon in the same paragraph.
- We want to mark the first occurrence of Erdos number as a definition so
- Highlight Erdos number in the first sentence.
- This time, in the Subentry box type definition
- Since this is the only definition, select Mark
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- Finally move to the first paragraph under Scientists and
- Select Erdos Number and Mark All
- Now to build an index.
- Move to the bottom of the document.
- Type Index and make it header 1.
- Select Insert Index in the Index section of the REFERENCES tab.
- This will bring up the Index dialog box.
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- Select Modern in the Format drop down
- And click on the box beside Right align page number
- Finally select OK
- This will produce the following index:
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- Updating the Index
- Go through the document and place page breaks so that each heading 1 item begins a new page, you should have 5 pages.
- Go back to the REFERENCES tab, Index section.
- Notice that the Update Index box is now active.
- Press it and observe the change to the index.
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- Table of Contents.
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Page 254 - 261
- If you are using styles, then a TOC is no problem.
- Move to the top of your document, just before Introduction.
- On the REFERENCES tab, select Table of Contents
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- This will bring up the Table of Contentsdialog.
- You can select an existing style or create your own.
- Select Custom Table of Contents
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- Change the options as you wish, then select OK
- This will build a table of contents.
- Updating a Table of Contents.
- To update a table of contents, select it and choose Update Table
- You will be able to update page numbers only, or the entire table.