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How to edit citations in Word

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Hi everyone!
I am working with word and trying to edit the format from my citation but don't know how to do it.
I am using format IEEE, which means that my citations look like: [1] [2] [3] etc I found out how to manage to get two citations together in brackets: [1,2].
The PROBLEM is that if I have such case: [1, 2, 3, 4], I would like to get look like this [1-4] but I dont know how to do it... or even if gets more complicated like this: [1, 6, 7, 8], to get something like this: [1, 6-8].
Does anyone know how I can do it? prob I have to do it directly from the code right? " CITATION AJe13 \l 1031 " but I don't know either how this code works...
Thank you very much for your help! :-)
Thursday, February 5, 2015 7:48 AM
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Jeff: I don't know why you think doing this 'by code' would make any difference. It's certainly not something that could be achieved with VBA.
Marteta: What you can do with a given citation format ordinarily depends on what that format supports. Does the IEEE referencing standard actually provide for a [1-4] or [1, 6-8] reference? If it doesn't you shouldn't try to reference that way, since doing so would contrary to the IEEE standard. If it does support such referencing, changing the way such references appear would require editing the relevant referencing StyleSheet. Assuming Word 2010, that StyleSheet would be:
IEEE2006OfficeOnline.xsl
located in a folder like:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\Bibliography\StyleCross-posted at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/edit-format-citations-in-word-2013/3dde949c-8055-4ca6-a8ae-23bfc3940e2c
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Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]- Edited by macropodMVP Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:10 AM
- Proposed as answer by Melon ChenMicrosoft contingent staff Monday, February 16, 2015 6:09 AM
- Marked as answer by Melon ChenMicrosoft contingent staff Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:09 AM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:04 AM
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You need to do this by code per my view, post the request in Word for Developers forum to get help:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=worddev
Saturday, February 7, 2015 4:13 AM -
thanks!Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:28 AM
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Hi everyone!
I am working with word and trying to edit the format of my citations, maybe someone can help me...
My citations look like: [1] [2] etc I found out how to manage to get two citations together in brackets: [1,2]. The PROBLEM is that if I have such case: [1, 2, 3, 4], I would like to get look like this [1-4] but I dont know how to do it... or even if gets more complicated like this: [1, 6, 7, 8], to get something like this: [1, 6-8]. Does anyone know how I can do it?
Thank you in advance :-)
Marta
- Merged by Caillen Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:08 AM duplicate
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:33 AM -
Jeff: I don't know why you think doing this 'by code' would make any difference. It's certainly not something that could be achieved with VBA.
Marteta: What you can do with a given citation format ordinarily depends on what that format supports. Does the IEEE referencing standard actually provide for a [1-4] or [1, 6-8] reference? If it doesn't you shouldn't try to reference that way, since doing so would contrary to the IEEE standard. If it does support such referencing, changing the way such references appear would require editing the relevant referencing StyleSheet. Assuming Word 2010, that StyleSheet would be:
IEEE2006OfficeOnline.xsl
located in a folder like:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\Bibliography\StyleCross-posted at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/edit-format-citations-in-word-2013/3dde949c-8055-4ca6-a8ae-23bfc3940e2c
For cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/content.php?184
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]- Edited by macropodMVP Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:10 AM
- Proposed as answer by Melon ChenMicrosoft contingent staff Monday, February 16, 2015 6:09 AM
- Marked as answer by Melon ChenMicrosoft contingent staff Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:09 AM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:04 AM -
See my reply in your other thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0fc251f7-ef6b-4f80-8f26-bb908094f322/how-to-edit-citations-in-word?forum=word
Cross-posted at: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/edit-format-citations-in-word-2013/3dde949c-8055-4ca6-a8ae-23bfc3940e2c
For cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/content.php?184
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]
- Edited by macropodMVP Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:10 AM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:04 AM