Reference Number citations are a method of documenting sources using a number
in the text of the document that references a numbered bibliographic citation in
a list of works cited.
There are two basic systems for organizing Reference Number citations in a document:
alphanumeric and numbered references.
For reference number citations, repeated citations in the text are assigned
the same number.
Example: Numbered references:
For numbered references, the reference list is ordered in the
order of their appearance in the paper:
Nothing seemed so certain as the results of the early studies (1). It was
precisely this level of apparent certainty, however, which led to a number of
subsequent challenges to the techniques used to process the data (2). There
were a number of fairly obvious flaws in the data's aspect: consistencies and
regularities that seemed most irregular, upon close scrutiny (1,2).
References
1. Smith, J.P. Studying certainty. Science and Culture 9 (1989) 442.
2. Jones, M.R. Cooking the data? Science News 8 (1990) 878.
To write Reference Number intext citations, and a numbered reference list
in order of the appearance of the citations in the document::
- Prepare the word processing document, inserting Access Keys
at the citation positions in the text.
- Click Generate, Citations for document. The Generate Citations dialog will display.
- Click the In-text citation option for Reference Number, and set the options
to your preference for displaying the number in the text of the document.
- Set the Reference List Options to the correct publishing style for the full bibliographic
citations, and make sure the option for Order of Appearance
in document is checked. See the example below.
- Click OK.
Citation replaces the Access keys in the document with Reference Number citations, and writes
a numbered Reference List with the full bibliographic citations for the works cited.
Example
For ICMJE numbered cites, with a numbered reference list in order of
the citations in the text:
Note
If you have included specific page references in your Access keys, Citation will ignore these
for Reference Number citations.
