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Create a bibliography or works cited section

Create a bibliography or works cited section - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Create a bibliography or works cited section

- [Instructor] There are two different types of reference lists for our citations that we can use in a document. One is called the Bibliography, the other is called a Works Cited, and actually Word only creates Bibliographies. It does not create Works Cited automatically. Let me show you the difference. Let's go to Manage Sources. Notice that in the current list, I've added a fictional book, Residential Solar and Wind Safety, 101, and that it is not cited in my document. I read it, it's part of my research, but it is not cited in the document. This should not show up in a Works Cited then, and yet, it will and it will also show up in the Bibliography where it should show up because the Bibliography should be a comprehensive list of all of the documents that I used for research. All of the websites I visited. Every place else that informed my work, whether I cite them or not, whereas the Works Cited should not include this item. One of my choices is simply to delete this out of the…

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