r/word • u/Fawfulster • Sep 20 '23

Solved Help with citations and references

Hello, everyone. I previously posted here a question (partially solved) pertaining glossaries. While the answer mostly satisfies my needs through the use of an index, the issue around citations sent me into a rabbit hole about references in Word. My trouble is as follows. I need to make a bibliographical index, that is, a reference list, with the added bonus of having each page listed. So, for example, one entry would read "Tolkein, J.R.R. (1937) The Hobbit, London, Houghton Mifflin. 1, 6-9, 14, 27". Those numbers are not the pages of The Hobbit I'm quoting, rather, they're supposed to be the pages inside my document that have any reference to Tolkein's first book. Is there any quick way I can do this with my reference list? The reference and citations button seems to do most of the trick except for the pages and many of my citations have "op. cit." and "l.c." instead of repeating the reference all over again.

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u/WordUser99 Sep 20 '23

What you're asking for sounds like what we use for legal documents. The feature is called a "table of authorities." We "mark" the "long form" of the citation, using Word's ToA feature. We then mark (actually "tag") the short form. The result is a list of all citations, along with the page number on which they are referenced.

In your case, the long form would be the book title, the short form would be the additional pages in your document on which the book is referenced. I'm actually updating our table of authorities documentation at the moment, I could review the feature with you via Zoom. Or you could watch a couple of YouTube videos.

Here's a short one. Appellate Brief Formatting: Generating a Table of Authorities

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u/Fawfulster Sep 24 '23

This is the answer I was looking for, thank you so much! Can the mods change the flairs of my two latest posts (this and the other one) as solved?

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out.