How to Use Citations 

Part 1: Gathering Sources

To begin, you need to create a Source in your new Word document for each of the sources provided to you.

To do this:

For Mac Word 2011:

• Go to the 'Document Elements' tab and click on the 'Manage' button.

 

• A window called 'Citations' will pop up.
• Click on the 'gear' icon at the bottom of this window and select 'Citation Source Manager...'

 

At this point, you should be looking at your 'Source Manager'.

Tip: We recommend that you delete any sources that are currently there. Most likely, they’re from the last task, and if you leave them in there, you might get them mixed up with the new sources you’re about to create for this task (if that’s confusing, read a little further).

1. Click 'New...'
2. Select 'Web Site' in the 'Type of Source' drop down menu.
3. Enter the URL and create a Shorty Title that refers to this source.
4. Click 'OK'.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each source.

For Windows Word 2007/2010

• Go to the 'References' tab and then click on the 'Manage Sources' button.
   

At this point, you should be looking at your 'Source Manager'.

Tip: We recommend that you delete any sources that are currently there. Most likely, they’re from the last task, and if you leave them in there, you might get them mixed up with the new sources you’re about to create for this task (if that’s confusing, read a little further).

1. Click 'New...'
2. Select 'Web Site' in the 'Type of Source' drop down menu.
3. Enter the URL and create a 'Tag Name' that refers to this source.
4. Click 'OK'.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each source.

 

Example: 

You have three sources:

“Care for Cats”, an article at www.cats.com

“How to Care for Cats”, an article at www.cattips.com

“Cat Care Do’s and Don’ts”, an article at www.animalwelfare.com 

Good short tags for these might be:

“care_for”

“how_to”

“do’s_and_don’ts”

Part 2: Write your article, putting a source reference on every Sentence

Using the source material you’ve been given, write an article on the topic provided. Each sentence must be unique fact about the topic. After every sentence, you must insert a tag that shows the source document(s) you used as research. To do this, you will use Word’s citation feature:

Mac Word 2011:

1. Place the cursor at the end of the sentence, before the ending punctuation. 
2. Press the 'Manage' button in the 'Document Elements' tab and double click the applicable 'Short Title'.

 

As instructed above, you should repeat this for each sentence. Your final product must have a citation for each sentence. Here is a three sentence example of how this should look:

Windows Word 2007/2010:

1. Place the cursor at the end of the sentence, before the ending punctuation.
2. Select "Insert Citation" from the 'References' tab and select the applicable 'Tag Name' from the drop down menu.

 

As instructed above, you should repeat this for each sentence. Your final product must have a citation for each sentence. Here is a three sentence example of how this should look: