How to Cite While You Write in Apple Pages
The steps required to cite a reference and generate a bibliography with Apple Pages are given below.
First, insert citations:
- Open the EndNote library that contains the references you wish to cite.
- Start Pages and open the paper you are writing.
- When you are ready to cite a source, position the cursor in the text where you would like to put the citation.
- From the Insert menu, select EndNote Citation. A Find EndNote Citations dialog appears. If this is the first time you have used the Find EndNote Citations dialog, it may be completely blank because there are no previous search results to display.
- In the Find box, enter identifying text for EndNote to locate the appropriate reference. This could be an author’s last name, a year, a keyword, or any other combination of terms found in the reference.
- Press Return and EndNote compares the identifying text to your EndNote references and then lists the matching reference(s).
- Identify and highlight the citation you wish to insert.
- 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.
- Click Insert to insert the selected reference(s) at the cursor in your paper. The citation is formatted according to the currently selected output style.
- Go back to step 3 to insert the next citation, and continue citing references this way.
Each time a citation is added to the paper, a cumulative bibliography is updated at the end of the paper.
Initially, the output style used to format the citations and bibliography is the style currently selected in your EndNote library. If you would like to change the output style selection, see .