MS Word 20XX citation stuffs
2011-Jan-16, Sunday 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ssurgulSo, one of the bigger 'kewl' features of Word in the last couple of iterations has been the source management solution offered. It allows you to track the cited sources for your material to be able to refer to it in the text and get things 'right' when citing and showing the Bibliography at the end of the document. Very kewl, really. Until you realize that their 'APA' style .... well, isn't. There are lots of small structural issues with it. Things aren't laid out according to the APA at all, in some cases.
Lots of bitching about this, and the need for other styles that MS didn't deign to include, and the need to modify some types because there is a local variance with the standard, and MS published this:
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx
Now that's fucking awesome. Granted, it looks to be a massive boatload of coding work to get everything corrected, but at least now I can start trying to tackle some of these issues surrounding the APA6 standards the school expects, and which would be incredibly handy to be able to carry over into work and being even more professional on these things.
Lots of bitching about this, and the need for other styles that MS didn't deign to include, and the need to modify some types because there is a local variance with the standard, and MS published this:
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx
Now that's fucking awesome. Granted, it looks to be a massive boatload of coding work to get everything corrected, but at least now I can start trying to tackle some of these issues surrounding the APA6 standards the school expects, and which would be incredibly handy to be able to carry over into work and being even more professional on these things.