Citing Sources as You Write

Forms of Citations in Apple Pages

A “citation” is the brief bibliographic information in the body of a paper that refers the reader to a complete reference in the bibliography. A citation typically consists of a bibliography number or the author and year in parentheses:

... of the species at hand.1

... of the species at hand. (Argus, 1991)

Pages uses an EndNote output style to determine the format.

You can easily change the style of your citations at any time. See .

Finding and Inserting Citations in Apple Pages

Search for EndNote references and insert them without ever leaving Pages.

To insert a citation in a Pages document:

  1. Open the EndNote library that contains the references you wish to cite.
  2. Open the Pages document and position the cursor at the location where you would like the citation.
  3. From the Insert menu, select EndNote Citation to display the Find EndNote Citations dialog.
  4. In the Find text box, enter text to identify the reference you wish to cite.
  5. Press Return and EndNote compares the text to text in your EndNote references and lists the matching reference(s).
  6. Identify and select the citation you wish to insert.
  7. Determine whether to apply the options at the bottom of the dialog:
  • Use the Prefix and/or Suffix text boxes to add text before or after the citation.
  • Use the Citation Range text box to enter a page range as part of the citation.

    Page numbers entered here are considered entered into a Cited Pages field, so they can be manipulated on output just like any other EndNote field. For example, a "p." could be added by the style before a single page number or "pp." could be added before a range of page numbers, if the style required this. In order to print, the Cited Pages field must be included in the citation template and/or footnote template of your output style. This is typically used to print the page numbers within a full footnote citation, although some author-date formats also require page numbers. Most EndNote styles that require page numbers for citations are already configured this way.
  • Use the Exclude: Author or Exclude: Year check boxes to leave that component out of the in-text citation. For example, if you are using an Author-Date format for your citations, but you have already mentioned the author’s name in the text of your paper, you may want to leave the author name out of the citation.
  • Select the Only insert into the bibliography check box to include the reference only as part of the bibliography, and not format an in-text citation.
  1. Click Insert to insert the selected reference at the cursor in your paper. The citation is formatted according to the currently selected output style.
  2. Go back to step 3 to insert the next citation, and continue citing references this way.

Citations are inserted directly into your paper in the same font as the surrounding text.

You can insert citations in an existing manuscript or as you write. Remember to save your document as you work.

The citation and the bibliography are formatted according to the currently selected output style. To select a different output style, see Reformatting with a Different Style in Pages.

Citing References in Footnotes and Endnotes in Apple Pages

Once you have created a footnote or endnote in Pages, you can cite references in that footnote or endnote just like you cite them in the body of the document.

To cite a reference in a footnote or endnote:

  1. Use the appropriate command in Pages to create the footnote or endnote. (EndNote does not create the footnote or endnote in the document, but is used to insert and format citations in the note.)
  2. Position the cursor in the footnote or endnote where you would like the citation to appear.
  3. Insert the citation as you normally would. See Finding and Inserting Citations in Apple Pages.

The EndNote style that is currently selected determines how citations in footnotes and endnotes are formatted. EndNote can format these citations as brief in-text citations or like complete references in the bibliography. It can also create a special format specific to footnotes or endnotes, including options like “Ibid.” and other variations of shortened references, for when a citation appears more than once in the footnotes or endnotes. See Bibliography and Footnote Templates.