With your choice of open or close brackets. These are controlled by the OpenBracket and CloseBracket names (search for those terms in a Word XSL and they’ll appear. Some changes are relatively simple once you know where to look.Ī common question is changing the open and close brackets for a citation. Open in any text editor, preferably one with coding support like NotePad++ then carefully change the parts that don’t suit you. If you must make your own Bibliography style, start with an existing XSL that’s closest to what you need and make the changes. Ask around to see what they did and hopefully someone already made an XSL you can copy.īibWord (more on that in a moment) has a library of Word Bibliography XSL files to download. If your institution, department or professor has a different Bibliography format, they should have a Word compatible XSL you can use.įailing that, presumably other students (current or past) have the same problem. Microsoft has a l ong, complex page that goes into some detail but there are many shortcuts they don’t mention (but we will). The supplied Word XSL bibliography formats range from over 5,600 lines of code to 9,300 lines for the Turabian option. There are different requirements for things like dated and non-dated sources or human vs corporate authors. It’s not a simple thing to do, not for the faint of heart and definitely NOT anyone with a looming deadline.

It’s possible to make your own Bibliography/Citation format or XSL. Make your own Bibliography format or style For those of you not up on your XML-speak, an XSL file tells software how to present or transform data for presentation.

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