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Many thanks to everyone who replied to my request for information on the subject of the automatic referencing tools in Office 2007. The responses indicated that there is a debate about using these tools going on in Universities around the UK. Many respondents recommended the use of EndNote Web, RefWorks and NoodleTools instead of the tools in Word 2007 and it was pointed out by a number of people that the Word 2007 tools might be unsuitable for students and academics working on large and detailed pieces of work (due to the fact that the references need to be inputted manually on Word 2007).

 

Some respondents were able to give me links to websites that give information on how to create custom referencing styles for Word 2007 and the links are as follows:

 

http://www.codeplex.com/bibword

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/bibliography-citations-1011.aspx

 

If any institution is thinking of creating their own referencing style for Word 2007 there are two things to consider:

 

1.     You need to have a reasonable knowledge of XML before attempting it.

2.     You need to have the permission/ability to have the file you create put into the Microsoft Office programme files directory on every machine that Word 200 is installed on.

 

Many thanks,

 

Jonathan White

Curriculum Learning Resource Specialist  

Upper Clifton Learning Centre

Rotherham College of Arts and Technology

S65 1EG

 

Tel: 01709 722738

Internal ext: 3056 / 2738

e-mail: [log in to unmask] 

 

From: White, Jonathan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 October 2009 11:56
Subject: Automatic Referencing tools in Office 2007

 

Dear all,

 

We have just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 in College and have been assessing whether to/how to incorporate the automatic Citation and Bibliography tools into our Information Skills sessions. The main problem with this is that the only referencing standard that comes close to the version we use in College is the APA standard and this still requires students to make tweaks to their citations and references for Web-based resources (our standard is exactly the same as the Harvard standard listed in the ‘Cite them Right’ book). Therefore I would be grateful if anyone can give me information on the following two queries:

 

·         Is it possible to create/modify custom referencing standards and upload them into Word 2007?

·         Does anyone have experience of their Institution encouraging students to make use of these tools, and if so what are the advantages or disadvantages?

 

I will collate the responses I get and circulate to the group.

 

Many thanks,

 

Jonathan White

Curriculum Learning Resource Specialist  

Upper Clifton Learning Centre

Rotherham College of Arts and Technology

S65 1EG

 

Tel: 01709 722738

Internal ext: 3056 / 2738

e-mail: [log in to unmask] 

 

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