That same feature, with some improvements, has carried over to Word 20 too. Among the many great new features in that version was a Citations & Bibliography tool that changed the way millions of people handled citations.

There were word processor add-on apps that could help, but most of them weren’t very good, were expensive, or both.Īll that changed, though, with Microsoft Word 2007. Your best bet was to look up the formatting for a specific resource type on a reference book or on a web site, and then try to duplicate it was best you could. Until the last decade or so, there wasn’t an easy way of applying citation formatting. There are many different different standards, each one popular in a different academic discipline, and each one has complicated rules about how to format entries. Citations can be a pain in the neck, even for people who write lots of papers.

If you’ve ever taken an academic course that required a research paper (or several), you have probably agonized over how to format the citations.

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