Word should understand and assist with MLA and APA citation.

[Bert]

Word should recognize the formatting of an MLA (Modern Language Association)
and APA (American Psychological Association) citations at the end of a
document as well as other widely used formats for citation. Spelling and
grammar check always disapproves of a “work citied†page because periods are
mandated to separate source content, confusing the material for a fragment
sentence. Could MS Word be configured to accept this style of formatting?
Another possible solution is to have MS Word assist in formatting a “work
cited†page according the current MLA rules, APA rules, and other styles of
citation. A vast majority of high school and higher education students rely
on MS Word for their typing needs! Could Microsoft lend a helping hand?

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Word should recognize the formatting of an MLA (Modern Language Association)
and APA (American Psychological Association) citations at the end of a
document as well as other widely used formats for citation. Spelling and
grammar check always disapproves of a “work citied” page because periods are
mandated to separate source content, confusing the material for a fragment
sentence. Could MS Word be configured to accept this style of formatting?
Another possible solution is to have MS Word assist in formatting a “work
cited” page according the current MLA rules, APA rules, and other styles of
citation. A vast majority of high school and higher education students rely
on MS Word for their typing needs! Could Microsoft lend a helping hand?

It's probably useful to turn spell checking off for the citations.

To format citations with an external program which integrates with your
word processor, see <http://www.citationonline.net/> and probably
others. Going this route is similar to using special add-on programs
like MathType for mathematical papers.

WordPerfect seems to have built-in stylesheets for APA, MLA, and
Turabian.

There is at least one APA template for MS Word on the Internet:
<http://www.apastyle.info/template.shtml>, and this contains an MLA
Wizard for MS Word:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...D3-B37A-425A-9AE8-DD3593B5675B&displaylang=EN>.

And of course, you can always create your own style/template.