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What comes first in a reference?

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What comes first in a reference?

Reference list citations start with Author information. Since Author information comes first, it is the first component that your readers will identify and therefore needs to tie most directly to the In-text citation. In this regard it is the main identifying component.

What information is important when referencing a website?

The essential elements you require to create a web page reference include: The Author. [Call out: The author may be a person, or an organisation]; Year of publication; Title of web page or web document; Publisher; the date you viewed the content in the format day, month, year; and the Web address.

Why is my table of contents not aligned?

If you tab on the ones that are not right aligned, they do become right aligned. But the, they go back again. As Doug suggests, from your description the likely cause is that you have a hanging indent (which by default has an associated tab stop) that is farther to the right than some of your very short TOC entries.

How do I get rid of the lines in a table of contents?

Right clicking on the table entry and selecting “Delete”, deletes the text from the underlying document. Going to the document and trying to “remove the heading style” from the text either clears all formatting from the text or deletes the text entirely.

How do I put page numbers after table of contents?

Steps by Step Guide:

  1. Click the specific page where you want to divide or insert section. (
  2. Click Page Layout > Breaks > Next Page.
  3. Double-click in Footer area (the place where you want to display page numbers).
  4. Click Link to Previous to turn it off and unlink the header or footer from the previous section.

How do you reference an appendix in a paper?

If your paper only has one appendix, label it “Appendix” (without quotes.) If there is more than one appendix, label them “Appendix A,” “Appendix B,” etc. (without quotes) in the order that each item appears in the paper. In the main text, you should refer to the Appendices by their labels.

How do I stop headings appearing in table of contents?

Highlight the text. Go to ‘References’ Click on the ‘Add Text’ pull-down menu. Check Do Not Show in Table of Contents.

How do I add the dots in a table of contents?

Place your cursor between a chapter name and the page number in your table of contents. Press the “Tab” button, and the dots are auto-generated for you. Repeat these steps for each chapter in your table of contents.

How do I add page numbers after table of contents?

Insert a page number with table of contents formatting at the bottom of the table of contents page. Put your cursor in the table of contents page and press view / header footer / and then choose footer. Insert / page number / format / change the type of number to “i ii iii” and change to start at 1.

How do I fix Table of Contents links in Word?

Format the text in your table of contents

  1. Go to References > Table of Contents > Custom Table of Contents.
  2. Select Modify.
  3. In the Styles list, click the level that you want to change and then click Modify.
  4. In the Modify Style pane make your changes.
  5. Select OK to save changes.

Do you cite appendix in your paper?

All items that are placed in an appendix must be cited in the body of your essay/report as Appendix. If the item in the appendix is from a published source place a short citation in the appendix (not in the body of your essay/report) and add the full citation in the reference list.

Why is text showing up in my table of contents?

Typically, a heading style has been applied to the paragraph containing the text or image, and thus it gets reported in the TOC where the TOC is set up to display text in several levels of headings. Changing the paragraph’s style back to a body text style then updating the TOC solves that problem.

How should Appendix look?

Appendices should be designated with letters. The figures and tables are numbered in the straight numbering style. This means that the figures and tables are numbered consecutively throughout the document. The Appendices should follow the References/Bibliography unless your Appendices include citations or footnotes.

What is this order of information included in a reference?

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.