Research Papers and Word

• Before you begin.
  • Download from journal
  • or a template: APA, MLA
  • Or set the various fields from last class
  • And redefine at least the heading 1 style.
  • I would also go to the REFERENCE tab and set the style for the bib to match.
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• As I create the document I would add sources as I went.
  • Reference Tab, Insert Citation
  • Fill in the fields.
  • Paying attention to the format given in the example field.
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  • GIGO
  • These can be inserted in other places as well.
• At some point, you may wish to insert a bibliography
  • Same place. REFERENCE Bibliography
  • This may not suffice for your English paper, but I bet it will work for most others.
• Make sure you can do footnotes and endnotes.
  • Reference tab, Insert footnote or insert endnote.
  • The pullout box gives you better control of these.
  • Including when to restart footnote/endnote numbers
  • And the ability to convert footnotes to endnotes and back.
• TOC:
  • Reference Tab, Table Of Contents
  • Everything marked as a header 1 or header 2 is included.
  • You have quite a bit of control here.
• Table of figures
  • If you mark your figures with a caption
  • You can build a table of figures.
  • Careful, this is somewhat buggy.
• Index
  • Mark items to be in the Index.
  • Mark All vs Mark.
  • Insert Index.
• In all cases with these automatic tables, you may need to rebuild the table.
• Creating a cover page
  • Insert tab.