Huh. Did you put n.d. in the Date field? That works here, and shouldn't
mess anything up, I don't think.
John McGhie wrote:
> It's not just you.
>
> We are waiting for our resident citations expert to return from her
holidays
> and help you out.
>
> But basically, the Word 2008 citation styles are currently not quite
> correct, and there is work going on to improve them.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 27/04/08 12:11 AM, in article
> 3d78e262-8591-4df5-b761-0106f945e4cb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Ben
W"
> <bwoodruff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 25, 10:38 pm, Will <will.va...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to use the Mac Word 2008 referencing feature. There seems
>>> to be a bug.
>>>
>>> If I create a reference to a source, for example written by John
>>> Smith, that has no date the in-text citation should be in this format:
>>>
>>> (Smith, n.d.)
>>>
>>> what Word currently does is
>>>
>>> (Smith)
>>>
>>> Is there anyway for me to fix this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>> It could just be me, but I've also found Word's citation abilities
>> (while still useful) are generally not formatted correctly. I work
>> primarily with MLA citations and all the spacing ends up coming out
>> wrong, in-text citations are often incorrect. Of course I guess there
>> are different references as to what the "proper" way to do MLA is, but
>> I've never seen one that looks at all like Word generates.
>>
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