Bibliography & Citations 1011

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davidacoder — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:16:33 GMT

Someone should show some heart and either program a piece of software with which one can create styles easily or convert from style definitions of other programs, like Endnote. And in fact, I think that someone should be MS, since with probably 0 serious uptake of the this feature there is most likely no real market for this right now for a third party.

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Thomas M — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:13:00 GMT

I absolutely love this feature in 2007 - so easy to use and a truly fantastic addition for students! Thanks for the guide, we can now tailor our bibliography sections to fit in with "custom" guidelines!

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wrdblog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:28:18 GMT

code samples now left aligned...sorry about that.

-Jonathan (MS)

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Francis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:52:35 GMT

As it was not addressed in SP1, I've come up with a fix* for the spaces before commas issue with APA bibliographies. I simply edited the APA.XSL file included with Office (comments denote the few changes.) I hope it's not outre to post it here!

The updated APA.XSL is available at (save target to get source):

http://www.francispickering.com/APA.XSL

*Seems to work for all my references, though it's possible that unwanted spaces will appear with unusual citations.

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wildeny — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:52:52 GMT

Surely this is a good improvement from the previous version. However, IMO, Zotero is much better for this purpose. It can works with MS Word, OpenOffice and Google Docs.

(For academic writing, the better choice would be using LaTeX + BidTeX and free reference management softwares).

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Philip Coupar — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:31:44 GMT

Having now used this feature for creating a number of academic papers, I would like to see the following features:

Proper Harvard Referencing:

There are subtle differences between Harvard and APA, and there are people who can spot them too. Also the lack of support for referencing the same author in the same year is a significant oversight.

Citation Import:

Many journal sites and elecronic catalog have the ability to copy the citation into other citation tools directly from their website. It would be useful if it were possible to add the citation into word too. I currently spend a lot of time retyping the citation into the correct fields in word.

Citation Style:

In the text it is common to State "Fayol(1952) proposes ..." or "blah, blah (Fayol, 1952)." It would be useful if the citation tool allowed the author to optionally be placed in front of the brackets

Works Cited, and Bibliography:

a list of works cited is easy to achieve in word 2007, however producing a bibliography of works used but not cited is not so easy. I understand the workaround to be to convert one version to text and create the other.

Reference database:

Reference lists can become very long so a tool that allows for the grouping of references and easier edittign of reference lists would make this much easier to use.

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Francis — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:56:02 GMT

Random suggestion for a next version of Word--

why not build acronym/abbreviation management on top of the citation/bibliography features? E.G., a list of acronyms in use, integration with smart tags (for automated recognition and pop-up definitions), the ability to scan the document and provide a definition in parentheses or a footnote for the first occurrence of each acronym, and a button for "insert list of abbreviations?"

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davidacoder — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:09:36 GMT

Here is a question for the Word team:

Essentially the bibliography support in Word 2007 is VERY basic. On the other hand it seems pretty open, i.e. it should be possible for third parties to really extend it to something that can be used for scientific publishing in the real world. But then, I have not come across any offering from a third party that extends or builds on the support introduced in Word 2007. Are you aware of anything?

re: Bibliography & Citations 1011 - Tab character

Chris Ellsworth — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:38:59 GMT

Nice tutorial! I wish I had seen this a month ago! I am building a stylesheet for the IEEE style standard and I would like to include a tab after the ref # so that I can allign it using tab stops. I have tried the normal techniques for including whitespace in XSLT output, but they never seem to show up in Word.

How do you output a tab character?

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BJR — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:23:17 GMT

"Now start up Word. You'll notice that your style is listed in the Styles dropdown on the References tab!"

I've copied-and-pasted the exact sample code you give at the end of the post, and I've stuck it in the ...\Bibliography\Style\ folder as instructed, but I can't seem to get the new style to show up in the dropdown in Word when I restart word. The code seems to validate fine when I open it in IE (in other words, I don't think I missed a closing brace or anything). Am I missing a step? Any idea what might be going wrong?

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BJR — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:24:46 GMT

"Now start up Word. You'll notice that your style is listed in the Styles dropdown on the References tab!"

Is there any problem for World 2007 on XP 64-bit?

ypchen — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:57:04 GMT

Word 2007's bibliography feature run smoothly for me until I started to use 64-bit Windows XP. I installed a fresh copy of Office 2007 after XP-64, but all functions listed in "Citations & Bibliography" were disabled except for "Search Libraries" in "Insert Citation." I never encountered such a condition while using several different machines with Office 2007 on XP-32. Can you please comment on this situation and point out some possible directions? I really would like to use this feature on my 64-bit machine. Thanks a lot!

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MaskedMarvel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:55:37 GMT

You gotta be kidding? Three pages of html code just to define one style? Is this really the best MS can do? I'm not giving up Endnote yet.

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kigger — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:08:33 GMT

I don't see a way to cite my bibliographical references as footnotes or endnotes. It looks like it only works with in-text citations.

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kigger — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:12:22 GMT

I also can't copy/paste information from an open Word doc into the source manager.

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scleavit — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:10:26 GMT

Hi Folks,

I am trying to modify the current ISO690Nmerical.XSL file (in directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style) in hopes of

making my own.

I have managed to change a few formats, however, am stumped on:

1.) Changing the style name from "ISO 690 Numerical" to "My Bibliography".

I've already tried writing...

<xsl:template match="b:StyleName">

<xsl:text>My Bibliography</xsl:text>

</xsl:template>

...but apparently the template name in the xml isn't "StyleName", does

anyone know the template name equivalent in this document?

2.) Changing the order of the "Journal Article" reference type from [Title,

Author] to [Author, Title]? I've found that "Journal Article" proves to be a

bit more difficult than the "Book" (@ ln 4500) because the Title and Author

'seemingly' appear out of nowhere, but of course, I may have been looking at

this for too long ;^D

3.) In the citations section, instead of showing multiple references as

follows (1,2,3), write (1-3) instead.

4.) If there are more than 3 authors, write "et alum" afterwards.

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated...

Happy Holidays Folks & Happy Coding!

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scleavit — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:20:00 GMT

How do I remove defaulting period after the middle initial?

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

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Chris — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:14:22 GMT

Nice feature for Office 2007 but useless to me as I always need to submit articles with AMA referencing style (not available with Word 2007) and I'm not in a position to code my own.

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Egbert Teeselink — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:00:26 GMT

scleavit: you can set it around line 3420. There, you'll find a piece of code that looks like

<xsl:when test="b:OfficeStyleKey">

<xsl:text>ISO690NR</xsl:text>

</xsl:when>

just replace that by

<!--

<xsl:when test="b:OfficeStyleKey">

<xsl:text>ISO690NR</xsl:text>

</xsl:when>

-->

<xsl:when test="b:StyleName">

<xsl:text>Your Fancy Style Name</xsl:text>

</xsl:when> `

It seems Office first checks if there's an "OfficeStyleKey" so that it can match that to some correct localised translation, and only tries StyleName if an OfficeStyleKey transforms to nothing.

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Stefan Göckeritz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:12:18 GMT

Hi at all, happy new year.

I am having trouble with the citation thing under word 07 as well. After struggeling around with google and his/her friends for a long time I found a way to put in a TAB character, which was one of the things I was looking for.

Use the following line where you'd like to put a tab in the word document:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[	]]></xsl:text>

IAt least for me it worked right away. I hope I helped some of u folks.

cheers

Word 2007 Bibliography and Citations Feature

Bill Beckelman — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:58:09 GMT

Word 2007 Bibliography and Citations Feature

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