BUSI 1301 - Company Research Project

Adding Internal Citations

1. Place you cursor at the end of the sentence (but before the period) where you need to add a citation.
2. Go to the References toolbar.
3. In the Citations & Bibliography section, click on Insert Citation.
4. If this is your first time citing this source, click on Add New Source

5. This opens up the Source box. Select the type of information that you need to cite (book, journal article, website, etc.)

6. Type in as much information as you have about source. Different types of sources will require different information.
7. When you click into a field, check the example test below to see how you should enter the information.

8. If you don't see all of the fields that you need, check the box for "Show All Bibliography fields"

9. When you are finished entering the information about the source, click OK.
10. Word will add the internal citation right where your cursor was.

Editing Your Sources

If you need to go back and edit or make changes to any of your sources, you can do so through Manage Sources.

On the References toolbar, under the section for Citations & Bibliography, choose Manage Sources.

This opens the Source Manager box.

All of the sources that you have added so far should be listed. Click on the one that you need to edit, and then click Edit.

Building Your References Page

After you finished your paper and have added all of your sources to Microsoft Word, you are ready to create your Reference List. 

Adding a Reference List

1. Move your cursor to the start of your new page at the end of your document.
2. On the References toolbar, in the Citations & Bibliography section, click on Bibliography.
3. Select the middle option that says "References."

4. This will insert a Reference list of all of the sources that you added in the paper.

5. To make this match your paper in APA Style, you will need to make a couple of changes to the formatting.
   • Center justify the title "References" and make it match the same font, color, and size as the rest of your paper.
   • Select the title and all of the citations, and make them Double-spaced.

Updating your Reference List

If you update any of the citations in your paper, or add any new sources, after you created the Reference List, you will need to update it.

1. Click within the list.
2. A box will appear around it. In the top left corner, there's a button for Update Citations and Bibliography.
3. Once you update your list, the formatting will go back to the default. Be sure to fix the title and double space your references again.

Correcting Titles for Proper APA Style

Microsoft's built in citations are a great tool, but they do not meet all of the style requirements of APA when it comes to capitalization. If your instructor wants you to follow strict APA rules, you will need to make some corrections.

The biggest thing is how APA wants you to capitalize titles. 

In APA, titles fall into two categories: Works that stand alone (book, report, videos, journals, etc) and Works that are part of a greater whole (articles, edited book chapters, podcase episodes, etc).

The easiest way to fix this in Word is to type the title for source as you want it to appear according to APA Style rules. Word will use whatever you enter as the "title" in the citation that it builds. 

Works that are part of a greater whole

Do not italicize or use quotation marks around the title. Just write it out.

Use regular sentence case. (Only capitalize the first word and any proper nouns like you would in a standard sentence.)

Example: The ice cream tastes of today's academics.

Works that stand alone

Italicize the title.

Use regular sentence case. (Only capitalize the first word and any proper nouns like you would in a standard sentence.)

If additional information is given with the title to help retrieve it, include it in parentheses following the title.(ex- edition, volume number) but do not italicize it.

Example: Nursing: A concept based approach to learning (2nd ed., Vol. 1).