Keywords are indexing or cross-referencing terms which tag works in your datafile as containing material on a particular subject, or that you perhaps use in a course bibliography. You will be able to use Select to retrieve groups or subsets of records cross-referenced with the same keywords. (See the section on the Select feature for details on retrieving subsets of records with the same keywords.)

You can enter as many keywords as you need for each record. Separate keywords with a semi-colon and a space:

popular culture; Twain, Mark; biographical studies; psychology; d-f-s; delusions

Once you have entered several records with keywords, you may want to use the Keyword List Button. The Keyword list button displays an alphabetized list of keywords you have used in your records. Clicking on a keyword in the list box inserts the term into the Keywords field, helping you enter keywords more consistently.

Use the search button on the keyword list to browse records containing the term.

Using a pre-defined list of keywords
If you want to use a list of pre-defined keywords, you can edit a list in your word processor and then copy the list of keywords into a blank record. Citation will then display all the keywords in your pre-defined list in the Keyword List box.

Note
Make certain that you separate each keyword with a semi-colon. You can accomplish this easily by replacing all the hard returns in your word processing document with a hard return, semi-colon (or simply a semi-colon space).