References tab in MS Word

In this blog we discuss about References tab, its options and uses.

 What is References tab?

Microsoft Word has a simple built-in reference function at the References tab. Here you can manually enter references and refer to them in the text and create a bibliography in the most common styles (APA, Harvard, MLA, etc.)

Footnote in Word:

A footnote is a note that appears at the bottom of a page that is commonly used by writers to cite other author’s publication in their document.

Work:

·        Place the cursor after the word or phrase to which you desire to add the footnote.

·        On the References tab, in the Footnotes group, click the Footnote button.  A superscript footnote reference is added next to the text and a footnote divider is placed at the bottom of the page.

·        All you do next is type the text of your footnote.

·        In the Footnotes group, click Show Notes.

·        If the document has both footnotes and endnotes, when you see the Dialog box,

·        Select the type of note you want to review and click OK.

Table of Contents:

A table of contents, usually headed simply Contents and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.

Work:

·        Open a document.  The document should contain text formatted with the heading styles found in the Home tab.

·        Place the cursor where you wish to insert a table of contents.

·        In the Table of Contents group, click the Table of Contents button.  You will see several styles that you can use to create a Table of Contents.

·        Select the style you desire.

·        If you had no formatting in your document using the styles found in the Home tab, click Manual Table.  A table will be inserted into your document.

Bibliography:

A bibliography is a list of sources referred to in a document. Many scholarly documents require one, and you probably had to create a few while in school.

Work:

·        Place your cursor where you want the bibliography.

·        In the Citations & Bibliography group, click Biography.

·        Then select the type of bibliography you desire.

·        Word does an automatic insert.

Table of Figures:

A table of figures is a list, sorted by page number, of the captions pulled from figures, images, or tables in your document. It's like a table of contents, but it's a table of anything to which you can add a caption.

Work:
Define a caption for each figure.  

·        Place the insertion point in the position where you want to define a figure’s caption.  On the References tab, in the Captions group, click Insert Caption.  Enter a caption and Click OK.

·        Place your cursor where you want to insert a table of figure

·        On the References tab, in the Caption’s group, click Insert Table of Figures, Configure the table’s format and click OK.