References

[Otyokwa]

Is it possible to make word us et. al. s when citing when citing a
book/article with more than three authors?
Also, when placing the bibliography in my paper, I like to use the heading
"References" instead of the offered "bibliography" or "Work Cited" . Is it
possible to change these?
Thanks for your help!

 

[Deanna]

Hi don't use this much, however I know you can change the title to the
contents table by typing over the original heading, so I'm sure you can do
the same for the Words Cited?

 

[p0]

Is it possible to make word us et. al. s when citing when citing a
book/article with more than three authors?

Yes. The style you use probably already does it, just not with more
than three authors but with more than four or five or something.

If you feel like digging into the XSLT for the stylesheet, I can
probably give you a few pointers, but it is not all that easy. The
predefined styles in Word 2007 have the values hardcoded in the code
and not stored in some variable. In any case, you would need to post
more information on the style you are using.

Also, when placing thebibliographyin my paper, I like to use the heading
"References" instead of the offered "bibliography" or "Work Cited" .  Is it
possible to change these?
Thanks for your help!

Yes, instead of picking one of the predefined galleries, you can add
your own header. To do so, click the Bibliography button as if you
were going to pick one of the built-in styles like 'Works Cited'. In
the menu, at the bottom, under the built-in galleries, you can click
'Insert Bibliography'. This will insert a bibliography without a
heading. You can put whatever you want above it.

BR,

Yves

 

[grammatim]

Yes. The style you use probably already does it, just not with more
than three authors but with more than four or five or something.

Chicago style is to list all authors in the bibliography, but if there
are more than three authors, in-text references show the first author
and "et al." (Unless there are other works with the same first author
and different additional authors ... you give as much info as is
needed to disambiguate.)

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi grammatim,

In Word 2007 when using the Chicago style, if, for example, you use a book with four authors listed in the source then the in text
citation by Word 2007 will be in this format.

(Author1, et al. year)

With three authors all are listed. Changing the selected styles in Word 2007 will change the display of the inserted citation.

As Yves mentioned, knowing the Style being used helps

To manually change the .XSL style sheets where Word stores its 'rules' and templates for each style needs a better tool than Word or
even a basic code editor I'm guessing Yves has an XSLT tool that makes it somewhat easier to navigate through the templates in
the .XSL, but there was a good deal of 'borrowing' between templates that can make it tricky to get the changes right

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Chicago style is to list all authors in the bibliography, but if there
are more than three authors, in-text references show the first author
and "et al." (Unless there are other works with the same first author
and different additional authors ... you give as much info as is
needed to disambiguate.) >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[grammatim]

Hi grammatim,

In Word 2007 when using the Chicago style, if, for example, you use a book with four authors listed in the source then the in text
citation by Word 2007 will be in this format.

(Author1, et al. year)

That's correct Chicago style (except for the comma).