Citations & notes

What the Citations tab holds #

Two lists. Notes is every footnote and endnote in the project. The list below it is your sources, and its name follows the style you chose: Bibliography under Chicago, Works Cited under MLA, References under APA.

Both live at the project level rather than inside a scene, so a note survives moving the paragraph that points at it, and a source you cite in three chapters is stored once.

Footnotes and endnotes #

+ Add note creates one. Each carries a badge — FN for a footnote, EN for an endnote — and you can switch a note between the two at any time without retyping it. The difference is only where it prints: a footnote at the bottom of its page, an endnote collected at the back.

Numbering is not yours to manage. Notes number themselves in the order their markers appear in the manuscript, and renumber when you move text. The note list has a compact toggle for when it gets long.

Putting a marker in the text #

Open the reference panel and find the note; the ↑ button places its marker at your cursor. The marker is a small superscript number in the prose, and clicking one takes you back to the note it belongs to.

Citations work the same way but insert a short in-text reference rather than a number. Click an inserted citation to set its page number, which is the part that changes between one use of a source and the next — the rest of the details come from the source itself.

Sources, stored once #

A source is entered by kind: Book, Journal article, Book chapter, Website, or Other / free text for anything that does not fit. Each kind asks for the fields it needs — authors, title, container, editor, publisher, city, volume, issue, year, pages, URL.

Authors are typed as Last, First; Last, First, semicolons between them. That one convention is what lets the same entry come out as Smith, John in one style and Smith, J. in another without you touching it.

A→Z sorts the list. Free-text sources are for the awkward ones — an interview, an archive box, a letter — and pass through exactly as you type them.

Chicago, MLA and APA #

Citation style in Project settings chooses between Chicago (Notes-Bibliography), MLA (9th edition) and APA (7th edition). Chicago is the default.

Sources are stored style-agnostically, so switching styles reformats everything rather than asking you to re-enter it: the author order inverts or abbreviates, the punctuation moves, the list retitles itself, and the in-text citations change shape. Set it at the start if you know the requirement, and change it late without penalty if you do not.

What happens on export #

The compile dialog has separate switches for footnotes, endnotes and the bibliography, so a submission copy can carry the notes while a reading copy leaves them out.

In Word, footnotes become real Word footnotes — they sit at the bottom of the page and renumber if an editor cuts a paragraph, rather than being text that looks like footnotes. Endnotes and the source list are appended as their own section.

A PDF prints them where the page design puts them. See Include and Processing for the switches themselves.