How To Perform Referencing In Microsoft Word (Super Simple!)

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to perform referencing in Microsoft Word. I will also show you how to add citations and create a bibliography. Not many know about Word's built-in citation and referencing tool, so I'll show you everything you need to know in about 5 minutes. If you're serious about referencing in Word, I suggest looking into Zotero or EndNote - check out my tutorials below.

📖 Video chapters
00:00 Intro
00:06 How to add a citation
02:14 How to add a placeholder
02:50 Managing the references
03:50 How to add a bibliography
04:56 How to change the reference style
05:17 Outro

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[Zaryn]

Thank you so much Steven, I've just started study again after 45 years, this referencing is a struggle. I have watched one of your Zotero videos and I'm now speeding along. I truly appreciate your videos, thank you. 🍻

[RamKumar-vbet]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. A quick question - Where is the master list of references stored, please? I am asking from the point of view of back-up, if my computer crashes, or breaks down, then will master list be accessible to any Word file that I might have as a back-up, or do I need to do something special to back-up master list? Thanks!

[Bcauckland]

So helpful! Appreciate your insights and tips

[movieworld]

More videos required on excel- Viz Financial analysis, Ratios, Testing, Financial record keeping, Data Analysis, Financial Modelling and Advance. The statistics part drew me here. Thanks

[mads-Riley-Art]

Question is how do you add references on the mobile version

[lujainabuzied]

Thank you but I have a question when I have a doi how can I add it to the references

[gianlucaurbanelli]

How can I get full author's bibliography (.i.e. Philip Goff) using Internet ?

[copysanjay]

Can we add sources from an excel database? How?

[brianconway]

This is great, My tutor has asked me to have 2 lists in one document. 1 being references (Used articles in text). And 2. Bibliography for sources which i didn't cite in the text. I will try this but in case it doesn't work is there something else I should do? I don't know how to split the list.

[blueprint]

Hi, can you help me with my reference list? At the end of my assignment. I have created the reference list with all the references, however, when i click on the list, it shows up shaded and a little box comes up on the left -hand side with the words "update citations and bibliography." I don't know how to get rid of this. thanks

[luisvega]

I have 365 microsoft bur there is no option of styling etc. how i open all the options? I press reference and not there

[noryunus]

Thanks for the video. However, in APA 7th ed you use et al. for 3 authors or more in the in-text citation.

[nuv]

My issue is at referencing list it doesn’t give the full names of the Authors

[thisminimallife]

Do I have to add all the different journals in the beginning? Before I start my paper ?