: Word automatically provides the name Placeholder1, you can change it if desired. To insert a placeholder for a citation, click the Insert Citation button and select Add New Placeholder. Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus Greek (295)Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Position the cursor where you want to insert your first citation and press the Insert Citation button on the toolbar. If the source information is not readily available, you can create a placeholder and insert the source information at a later time.First, put the cursor at the end of the sentence and then go to Insert Citation and Add New Source. Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus English (294) Youre typing along and want to add a citation.If we click anywhere in it, it will be activated and if we select the arrow at the right of it, a drop down menu will appear where we can do one of the following: In the image below, we can see the Citation added in our document. Select Add New Placeholder from the drop-down menu. Select the Insert Citation button in the Citations & Bibliography group (see figure 4). Select the References tab in the ribbon (see figure 1). Now, if we select the References tab and from the area of the ribbon named Citations & Bibliography we select the command Insert Citation, from the drop down menu that appears the first that we notice is the Citation that we just added.Īll we have to do is to select it in order for the Citation to be added in our document or we starting creating a new one all over again by selecting the Add New Source command again. Place your cursor where you want to insert the citation placeholder. In the image below I have inserted all the text that I wanted in the appropriate fields and once I have finished completing them, I just press the OK button in order to return to our document and for the Citation to be inserted. Do one of the following: To add the source information. In the image below, I have selected as Type Of Source Website from the drop down menu that appears. On the References tab, in the Citations & Bibliography group, click Insert Citation. Show All Bibliography Fields:By activating the check box more fields will be displayed that we can type in more information as shown in the image below.