Whenever you use information from one of your sources, you need to give credit to them by citing them.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Book.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Book Section.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Journal Article.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
The template for 'Journal article' references doesn't include a mandatory entry for 'Volume', 'Issue numbers', 'DOI' or 'URL', but, if this is included on the source information, it will display in the APA reference.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Article in a Periodical.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
If you require additional fields to fill in (e.g. volume, issue number), then tick 'Show all Bibliography fields' at the bottom of the form and more options will be available to you. You will see a red asterisk beside the recommended fields for this reference type.
The template for 'Article in a Periodical' references doesn't include a mandatory entry for 'Volume', 'Issue number' or 'URL', but it will display if you enter it in the source information.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Website.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
You may require to enter the organisation's name as the author. If so, tick 'Corporate author' and enter the organisation's name in the box adjacent to it.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Document from Website.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
You may require to enter the organisation's name as the author. If so, tick 'Corporate author' and enter the organisation's name in the box adjacent to it.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Conference Proceedings.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Report.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Electronic Source.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
This source 'Electronic Source' is quite generic. You can try some examples with it, as below.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Art.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Sound Recording.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Performance.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Film.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Interview.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Patent.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
The template for 'Patent' references doesn't include an entry for 'Location' and 'Source Name' (e.g. Dublin, Ireland: Intellectual Property Office of Ireland). You will have to enter this information manually when your Reference List is complete. See here for how to do it.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Case.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
Put the cursor at the point in the document where you want to add a citation.
Click ‘Insert Citation’.
Choose the ‘Type of Source’ from the drop-down menu – in this case, Miscellaneous.
Fill in the relevant sections of the form and Click OK to generate an in-text citation.
You may not always have all the details of your reference to hand when writing your assignment, but wish to indicate to yourself that a citation and reference needs to be inputted later. In this case, you can use a placeholder to mark where this needs to go.
Click on the placeholder in the document
Click on the drop-down menu beside this placeholder
Choose ‘Edit Source’
Type in the details of the reference as necessary.
