How to Add/Use References in Microsoft Word

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When writing Academic Reports or an essays you must back up all of your findings and the information’s that you got from external sources and include them in your report to give more credibility to your Content. for this reason learning how to Add references is a very important thing and learning how to use References is much more important   . in this Article we will learn how to Add references and where to put them in a simple Steps , All what you need for now is to Open your Microsoft Word and Follow the Steps . 

 When to Use reference in Word ?

  • When Writing Academic Research ( all of your Research should have References )
  • When Talking about Statics ( Example : Studies , Numbers etc.. ) 
  • When you Quote from a book , Website , someone 

Where you Should Use references ? 

  •  as a Citation , After you Quote from a book for example” Pain is something Natural and essential in our life” (Hope,2019)  
  • at the last page in your Report you will insert all the references that you used by clicking “Bibliography”

What is a Good reference ? 

  • References From Books , Scientific Research , Website ending with (.org , .gov ) etc. ..  
  • References that have all the details name of the author , Date of the page etc.. 
  • don’t use Wikipedia as a reference and try not to use .com website as a reference 
  • Good reference is any reference that come from a reliable source    

How to put References using Word ? 

Now we come to the last part, Adding a reference in Word is very easy just follow this Steps : 

Open Microsoft Word and Go to References : 

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From the Top of the bar

Click on the Reference > Managing sources > New   

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Her You Can Choose the type of Source that you have. for example a Website or a Book , and then you will have to Write the information that you have on this source , For example the Author and if it Was a company then the Corporate Name.

  • Name of the Web page is the heading or the title of the topic  
  • Name of website is clear , for example ” Digital Shelf ” 
  • Year,day,month that this source published for a website it can be the date of Creation the topic , if you don’t find any date or a missing month or a day just Write ” n.d. ” in the Cell 

after you write all the information click ” Ok ” . 

 

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Make sure that source Style is APA , and now you can insert citation or Bibliography 

Bibliography is all the references that you used in the report , it should be in the last page 

 

Note : if You have Microsoft Office 365 you will have another feature that will save you some time when adding multiple resources .

this Feature is called ” Researcher ” where you can type the keyword of the topic that you search for and then add it directly to your references list . For more detail about this feature Click her 

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