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Creating a single Bibliography from Multiple Word Documents

If you have created individual Word documents for each chapter of your thesis, you will have a bibliography at the end of each document. When you come to compile your thesis you will only want a single bibliography at the end of the thesis. The steps below will assist you to do this:

Using Master Documents

Steps

  • In each of the subdocuments you will need to unformat your citations, do this by using the Unformat Citations icon on your EndNote toolbar in Word.
  • In Word, go to Outline View and create a Master Document.
  • Insert the subdocuments into the master document and then go back and reformat the bibliography by enabling instant formatting, using the Format bibliography icon .
  • In the pop-up window select Instant Formatting, then Enable.

Click OK and you will now have a single formatted bibliography at the end of the document.

When Merging Files

Steps

  • In the documents to be merged, unformat the citations using the Unformat citations icon on the EndNote toolbar.
  • Insert the files, and then reformat the citations by enabling the Instant Formatting using the Format Bibliography icon
  • In the pop-up window select Instant Formatting, then Enable.
  • Click OK and you will now have a single formatted bibliography at the end of the document.

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