How to Create an Automatic Bibliography in Ms. Word (100% Neat)

The bibliography is an important component in compiling reports, theses, scientific works, journals, books, or papers. Usually this bibliography is on the last page of the work we make. Then, did you know that in Microsoft Word there is a feature that automatically organizes the bibliography?

You don’t have to worry if you forget the bibliography writing format. Word will adjust to the type of bibliography you have, such as whether it comes from books, journals, websites, and so on with their respective attributes and formats.

Well, see the following steps for how to create an automatic bibliography using Microsoft Word.

How to Create a Bibliography in Word

Previously, you need to know here I am using the 2021 version of Word. For other versions, I don’t know Office 2007 up to the latest version, the method is pretty much the same, so you don’t have to worry if you want to create a bibliography using a different version of Office.

1. Open files You want to create a bibliography in Microsoft Word.

2. Then, click the tab References then select Manage Sources.

3. Click New to create a reference bibliography.

4. Select Type of Source whether your reference comes from an article, book, journal, websites, and others as provided by Word.

5. Type of source that you choose will match the attributes that appear. Fill in each of the existing attribute fields related to author, title, year, city, publisher, and others. Click OK after it finishes.

In section Author There is an Edit button that can be used to enter the author’s name consisting of first, last, and middle names. You can enter the name of more than one author by clicking Add.

6. After that, a display like the following will appear where a list of references that we added previously appears.

There are several buttons like Copy to copy references, Delete to clear the list, Edit to open the Create Source dialog box regarding the selected reference where you can change the available attributes, and New to create or add a new reference. The Copy, Delete, and Edit buttons work based on the selected reference in the Master List.

7. Then, after you have added all the reference lists you want, the next step is to display them into the bibliography on your worksheet. Select part References, click Bibliography continue by clicking Insert Bibliography.

8. Your worksheet should look like the image below.

To add a new list, you can repeat the above method by clicking the button New on Source Manager as in step 3. As forupdates bibliography on the worksheet, you can also repeat the same way as before by using the command Insert Bibliography in step 7.

Prior toupdates, first delete the existing list in your worksheet, so that you start from a blank sheet. Otherwise, your bibliography will have two lists where the first list contains the old list, while the second list is an updated list.

9. Next, here I will add 2 new references so that my bibliography consists of 3 references and I have shown them to the worksheet as shown below.

10. Well, here what we are concerned about is the order of the bibliography which is not in alphabetical order. To sort them, you have to make your bibliography into a tabular form. Click tab Insert then select Convert Text to Table….

11. Next, the Convert Text to Table dialog box will appear as shown in the picture. Enter the number of columns as much as 1 on Number of columns and select Paragraphs on Separate text at to separate the list into individual rows. So you will see the section Number of rows automatically shows the number of references you have in the bibliography. Then, for AutoFit behavior is the size of the table, you can choose according to your wishes.

12. After that, your table of contents is in the table.

13. The next step is to sort your bibliography. Previously table block your bibliography. Then, click on the tab Home then select Sort symbolized by the icon AZ, so a dialog box will appear. The important point in this section is Ascending and Descending. Ascending is the sort from alphabet A to Z, while descending otherwise. Because the bibliography is sorted alphabetically, select Ascending. After that click OK.

14. Well, your bibliography has been sorted alphabetically.

15. Next, remove borders on the table to get rid of the table form itself. Still on tab Home then click Borders shown as the icon in the picture. choose No Border. Your bibliography will be like without the table.

16. Next, adjust the spacing on each reference to make it look more organized. Use the Paragraph chart on the tab Layout then on the After set the number you want.

Finally, you have your bibliography.

Closing

Not only can creating a table of contents point be done automatically, the creation of a bibliography is also the same. How to make a bibliography is very easy with the features references provided in Microsoft Word.

The way or the steps for using it may not be exactly the same as what I described above, but it is very easy for you to follow. If there are suggestions and questions that you want to give, please fill in the comments column below, yes. Thank you.

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