Configuring the Bibliography in Microsoft Word
The Configure Bibliography dialog allows you to customize options for the citations and bibliography beyond those set in the style.
You may be halfway through inserting citations or you may have finished writing your paper. You may have instant formatting enabled or you may have manually inserted citations with formatting disabled. It does not matter. As long as you have citations entered in your document, you can format your paper at any time.
Note: The first time a citation is formatted, the corresponding EndNote library must be open. After that, EndNote can use The Traveling Library for reference information.
To format citations and generate a bibliography:
- On the EndNote tab, click the bottom corner arrow in the Bibliography group.
- On the Format Bibliography tab, change or verify these settings.
Format document: Make sure the appropriate Word document is selected from the list of open Word documents.
With output style: Select the appropriate output style to format references. You can experiment by reformatting with various output styles. To add more output styles to the list, see Adding Styles to the Output Styles Menu.
Temporary citation delimiters: These are the opening and closing delimiters for temporary citations. Make sure they are unique delimiters, and not characters you would normally use in your paper. The defaults are curly braces.
Link in-text citations to references in the bibliography: This option is selected by default, creating hyperlinks between in-text citations and their corresponding references in the bibliography. Clear the selection to remove links between in-text citations and their matching references in the bibliography.
Note: Links between citations and bibliography entries only works with in-text citations. You cannot link between full-reference footnotes or endnotes and their matching bibliography entries. Author-date citations within Word footnotes or endnotes can be linked, but not full-reference footnotes or endnotes.
Underline linked in-text citations: Select this option to add underlines to in-text citations. Clear the checkbox to remove underlines from in-text citations in your paper. This option is only available if the "Link in-text citations to references in the bibliography" checkbox is selected.
- On the Layout tab, change or verify these settings:
Font and Size: These are the text font and size used for the bibliography.
Bibliography Title: To print a title at the top of your bibliography, type the title in this text box. This title will always be centered. If you want to use Word's formatting options for the bibliography title, perhaps to match headings being at the left in your paper, leave this field blank and add a title above the bibliography manually.
Text Format: Highlight the bibliography title text and then use the Text Format button to display a dialog where you can change the format of the highlighted text.
Start with Bibliography Number: Enter a starting reference number if you want a numbered bibliography to start with a number other than one. This works only for in-text numbered styles; it does not affect footnotes or endnotes.
First Line Indent and Hanging indent: Use these settings to set a paragraph indent (where the first line of a paragraph is indented), a hanging indent, or no indent at all. The hanging indent applies to the second and subsequent lines of a reference in the bibliography. Type measurements as centimeters (cm), inches (in), lines (li), or points (pt).
Line Spacing and Space After: Set the Line spacing for within a reference and the Space after for spacing between references. - Click OK to save changes and format your citations and bibliography.
Note: You do not have to verify each tab every time you format. Changes set will remain in effect until you change them manually.