[question] Removing the standard citation brackets in MS Word 2007

[Medioman]

Hello Office 2007 users,

Is it possible to remove the standard brackets when inserting a citation in
your main text?
I would like like to add the APA-style in the following way ==> e,g.:
Peterson, 2007 instead of (Peterson, 2007)
The style withouth redundant brackets would be desirable in my footnotes.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Yes. But it requires the editing of XSLT files.

The output of the APA style is created by APA.XSL locate in the
<winword.exe>\Bibliography\Style folder.

The decision on to put a leading and/or closing bracket depends on the
availability of the FirstAuthor and LastAuthor element.

Open bracket:

<xsl:if
test="msxsl:node-set($ListPopulatedWithMain)/b:Citation/b:FirstAuthor">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_OpenBracket"/>
</xsl:if>

Close bracket:

<xsl:if test="/b:Citation/b:LastAuthor">
<xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_CloseBracket"/>
</xsl:if>

If you don't want the brackets to display, you can leave those two code
sections out.

Yves

 

[Medioman]

Thanks Yves. Your suggestion was effective to remove the brackets in
APA-style..
Now my university professor can't complain about it anymore .

Is it also possible to rename this modified APA-style in Word 2007, so that
I can use besides the original APA-style?
A simple "replace" of the APA-term in APA-without brackets doesn't give
useful results.

Regards,
Medioman

BTW: Cool website ==> http://bibword.codeplex.com

 

[Yves Dhondt]

See http://bibword.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=FAQ#Q8

Yves

 

[Medioman]

Works (again) perfectly.
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