Writer Guide

Maintaining entries in the database
To maintain entries in the database, use the Bibliography Database
window as in the previous section. Click on the appropriate field and
modify the text as appropriate.
Modified entries are saved automatically to the database when the
cursor moves off the record.
Adding a reference (citation) into a document
Writer supports two ways of showing references (citations) in the text
of a document:
• Using authors’ names and dates of the referenced documents, for
example [Smith, 2004], as recorded in the Identifier (Short name)
of each bibliographic entry.
• By numbering the referenced documents in the sequence they
occur in the text, for example [1].
Tip
To specify which citation style is used in the document, use the
Index/Table page on the Insert Index/Table dialog, described
on page 407.
To add references from the bibliographic database into a document:
1) Place the cursor where you want the reference to appear.
2) From the main menu, choose Insert > Indexes and tables >
Bibliographic entry.
3) In the Insert Bibliographic Entry dialog box, shown in Figure 351,
choose From bibliography database at the top of the dialog
box. (You can also insert a reference from the document itself by
selecting From document content, but that method is not
covered in this chapter.)
Figure 351. Inserting bibliographic
entries into a document
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