How to Make a Table of Authorities in Wordperfect

WordPerfect's Table of Authorities feature makes academic citation easy. This feature allows you to easily create a bibliography for academic, legal and research papers and documents. This program eliminates the time-consuming process of indexing individual resources spread throughout a paper and compiling a separate bibliography page. The program gathers all of the referenced passages in a paper, sorts the references by material type and creates a bibliography page.

Instructions

1. Open the paper or document in WordPerfect.

2. Using the mouse, highlight the section of text that you want to include in the bibliography The selected text can be in the body of the document or in the paper's footnotes, endnotes or captions.

3. Click "Tools" on the main menu bar and choose "References." Click "Table of Authorities."

4. Click on the "Type" box and enter the type of material that is being referenced, such as a book, periodical, Internet resource or newspaper. Note: Cases is the default type and more legal types are available in the pull-down menu. Click on the "Short Form" box and retype the reference type or create an abbreviation. You will use this when creating multiple citations, and it is strictly for your ease of use; it will not show up in the final draft.

5. Click "Create." If you want to create a hyperlink between the selected text and bibliography reference, check the box. Click "OK." Edit the select passage in the editing window. Click "Close" to return to the paper.

6. Repeat the process until all of the reference sources have been selected. If you are highlighting a source that will use a material type that has already been used, choose the type abbreviation from the Short Form pull-down menu and click "Mark."

7. Click "Define." Select a reference and click "Create." Add the author's name and reference-material title. Click "OK." Continue until all of the material types have been added to the table.

8. Click "Insert." A table placeholder will appear on the page. Click "Generate." Click "OK." The sources, references and page numbers will appear in the table, sorted by material type.