How can I make a custom bibliography style?

Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it contains
fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

Sorry, the Citation Manager is limited and will not work for all
situations. It can only be customized by digging into the code and at
present there seems to be no documentation on how to customize the
code, so that's not very feasible. I believe you have to know something
called XSLT, which may be part of XML, although I am not entirely sure.

Ariel wrote:
Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it contains
fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

I'm not certain - so please don't quote me - but I suspect that the
bibliography styles are built in to Word and not even customisable through
XML.

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Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Sorry, the Citation Manager is limited and will not work for all
situations. It can only be customized by digging into the code and at
present there seems to be no documentation on how to customize the code,
so that's not very feasible. I believe you have to know something called
XSLT, which may be part of XML, although I am not entirely sure.

Ariel wrote:
Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it
contains fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

They ARE customizable. However, for reasons unknown to me, the wise people at
Microsoft decided to make custimization unimaginably difficult. If you are
bold enough to try, all unintelligable data is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\Bibliography

-SHaroz

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I'm not certain - so please don't quote me - but I suspect that the
bibliography styles are built in to Word and not even customisable through
XML.

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Sorry, the Citation Manager is limited and will not work for all
situations. It can only be customized by digging into the code and at
present there seems to be no documentation on how to customize the code,
so that's not very feasible. I believe you have to know something called
XSLT, which may be part of XML, although I am not entirely sure.

Ariel wrote:
Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it
contains fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

Can you advice me what I should do to change (52) to [52]?

"SHaroz" wrote:

They ARE customizable. However, for reasons unknown to me, the wise people at
Microsoft decided to make custimization unimaginably difficult. If you are
bold enough to try, all unintelligable data is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\Bibliography

-SHaroz

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I'm not certain - so please don't quote me - but I suspect that the
bibliography styles are built in to Word and not even customisable through
XML.

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Sorry, the Citation Manager is limited and will not work for all
situations. It can only be customized by digging into the code and at
present there seems to be no documentation on how to customize the code,
so that's not very feasible. I believe you have to know something called
XSLT, which may be part of XML, although I am not entirely sure.

Ariel wrote:
Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it
contains fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

Hello Chemie,

Changing the braces is often easily done, it's just a matter of
changing a few lines of xslt. So if you can tell me the style name, I
can probably tell you what to change.


Yves
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For more Word 2007 Bibliography info, check out http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography

On Jun 6, 9:37*am, Chemie wrote:
Can you advice me what I should do to change (52) to [52]?



"SHaroz" wrote:
They ARE customizable. However, for reasons unknown to me, the wise people at
Microsoft decided to make custimization unimaginably difficult. If you are
bold enough to try, all unintelligable data is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\Bibliography

-SHaroz

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I'm not certain - so please don't quote me - but I suspect that the
bibliographystyles are built in to Word and not even customisable through
XML.

--
Enjoy,

Tony Jollans
Microsoft Word MVP

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Sorry, the Citation Manager is limited and will not work for all
situations. It can only be customized by digging into the code and at
present there seems to be no documentation on how *to customize the code,
so that's not very feasible. I believe you have to know something called
XSLT, which may be part of XML, although I am not entirely sure.

Ariel wrote:
Word 2007 brings the possibility of making abibliography, but it
contains fixedbibliographystyles. How can I make one of my own?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I found a way to get numbered citations in the text. after you 'insert
citation', and add a new citation entry you get the name of your source in
brackets (Doe,J et al. 2008). click on the little triangle at the lower right
corner of the citation and click on 'edit citation'. this allows you to edit
the appearance of the citation in the text. where it says add, put the
desired number into the box. I want my Doe, J citation to be number 1, so i
put a 1 in the box. then check all three of the boxes below, to remove the
name, date and author from the citation field. now your citation should read
(1).

Now you should also go to manage sources, up in the toolbar of the
references tab and make sure you change the 'sort by' field to 'sort by tag'.
then you can give your source a new tag, which corresponds to the number
....1. this wont be updated automatically so you should leave this part until
the end. when you next update your citations, by clicking on the tab in the
works cited section, it should update and you shold have numbers in the text
and in the works cited.





"Ariel" wrote:

Word 2007 brings the possibility of making a bibliography, but it contains
fixed bibliography styles. How can I make one of my own?

On 18 nov, 03:01, Katie wrote:
I found a way to get numbered citations in the text. after you 'insert
citation', and add a new citation entry you get the name of your source in
brackets (Doe,J et al. 2008). click on the little triangle at the lower right
corner of the citation and click on 'edit citation'. this allows you to edit
the appearance of the citation in the text. where it says add, put the
desired number into the box. I want my Doe, J citation to be number 1, so i
put a 1 in the box. then check all three of the boxes below, to remove the
name, date and author from the citation field. now your citation should read
(1).

Now you should also go to manage sources, up in the toolbar of the
references tab and make sure you change the 'sort by' field to 'sort by tag'.
then you can give your source a new tag, which corresponds to the number
...1. this wont be updated automatically so you should leave this part until
the end. when you next update your citations, by clicking on the tab in the
works cited section, it should update and you shold have numbers in the text
and in the works cited.


To be honest, I'm not sure what you try to achieve with the above
solution. I would think that if you use some kind of number to
represent the citation in the text, you would want that same number in
front of your citation in the bibliography. How else would you be able
to find the reference in your bibliography based on the in-text
citation? With your solution, it would be unlikely that the number
will show up in the bibliography. Unless you start editing the
bibliography formatting rules, but then it might be easier to just do
that for in-text citations as well.

Also, setting the "Pages" variable under "Edit citation..." might not
be such a good idea as it does have a totally different meaning.

Setting the "Tag" and suppressing the other variables is a good idea
though. Although it might still be easier to use a style which
actually uses numerical references to start with (e.g. ISO 690 -
Numerical Reference)

Yves
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http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography