Bibliography styles missing in Word

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Bibliography styles missing in Word

Henri BONDAR 30

Just installed Home office 365 in a new HP computer.

Only APA and MLA styles are available in the word/reference/style menu.

Default Office language has been set to US and all the styles are present as xsl documents in the folder: roaming/microsoft/office/bibliography/styles but wont open in the corresponding word menu.

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Jayden-P 26,260 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hi @Henri BONDAR

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

Based on your description, looks like you are missing Bibliography styles.

I found an article might help you.

All but two bibliography styles are missing from MS office word; what - Microsoft Community

First, press Windows + R, paste in %appdata%\Microsoft\Bibliography/Style

You'll see a folder like this. Select the one that appears in Word (APA and MLA)

Open with Notepad and find this <xsl:when test="b:Version"> by using Ctrl + F.

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Copy the middle block code and paste it into the missing ones. Change the name APA to the name of the reference style.

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<xsl:when test="b:OfficeStyleKey">
        <xsl:text>APA</xsl:text>
      </xsl:when>

Save and close it. Open Word again. It should appear like usual.

I hope this information helps.

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Henri BONDAR 30 Reputation points

2025-07-03T14:52:58.9166667+00:00

Wonderful, it worked fine !
Jayden-P 26,260 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-07-04T06:04:55.83+00:00

Hi @Henri BONDAR

It was my pleasure to help you.
Kacperek, Andrzej 0 Reputation points

2025-08-08T14:21:06.9133333+00:00

The 'fix' worked very well with clear instructions. Query: are the GostN and GostT styles useful or necessary? And how should they be named, e.g. GOSTT?

Many thanks.
MarcusJ 0 Reputation points

2026-07-24T07:29:30.3633333+00:00
I had this issue using IEEE style using United Kingdom proofing language setting. The issue is that the style xml has menu strings for only some language settings.

For me I went to %appdata%\Microsoft\Bibliography/Style and edited the IEEE2006OfficeOnline.xsl file. I then added the bold lines below;

<xsl:when test="b:StyleNameLocalized/b:Lcid='1033'">

<xsl:text>IEEE</xsl:text> </xsl:when> **<xsl:when test="b:StyleNameLocalized/b:Lcid='2057'">** **<xsl:text>IEEE</xsl:text>** **</xsl:when>** <xsl:when test="b:StyleNameLocalized/b:Lcid='1025'"> <xsl:text>IEEE</xsl:text> </xsl:when>

The IEEE style can then be displayed for UK language setting which is LCID 2057.