How are Citations formated in Word?

Question

Hi, I am the developer of Author and Reader (for macOS) using the Visual-Meta approach to metadata.

[http://visual-meta.info]

Visual-Meta is a simple way to add BibTeX citation information to a document which then cane be used when a user copies text: The BibTeX citation information is appended to the clipboard with the copied text so that when this is pasted into a word processor which understand Visual-Meta, it is pasted as a full citation.

This means it will be automatically included in the References on Export and so on.

So my question is, what is the format for pasting a citation into Word? It would be great for our software to produce a payload on the clipboard/copy which when pasted into Word pastes as a full citation.

Do you know if this is possible? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

The site for the software is [https://www.augmentedtext.info] BTW.

Answer 1

@Frode Hegland ,

Based on research, “automatically included in the References on Export” is not available in Word for Mac currently.

You may need to add a source to your document manually before adding a citation, a works cited list, or a bibliography.

Here is a related official article “Add or change sources, citations, and bibliographies”, you may have a look.

Any misunderstandings and updates, please feel to let me know.

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