How References Should Be Formatted

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Citerefs' analysis program takes everything between two presses of the <ENTER> key to be a single reference. It has no other practical way to determine where one reference ends and another begins. This means that in typing your references, you should, first of all, set the margin indicators as will be explained when you exit this page, then type each reference completely before pressing the <ENTER> key.

Correctly formatted references should look like this:

Note that there is only one end-of-paragraph symbol terminating each reference.

The normally invisible symbols are showing here: · is a blank or space, ¶ is a paragraph end (press of the <ENTER> key), and → is a tab. (You can switch these between being visible and invisible in MS Word by clicking the ¶ (Show/Hide) key on the MS Word toolbars at the top of the Word window. Go to the References section of your own paper, and then press the ¶ (Show/Hide) key to see how your references are formatted.)

Incorrectly formatted references might look as follows:

Here, the writer has pressed <ENTER> at the end of each line, and then pressed <TAB> to get the indent on lines other than the first, and in one line got the indent by holding down the space bar. There are other problems with this approach having nothing to do with CiteRefs, but we won't pursue them here.

Now, click the Back button of your browser and return to the discussion on how to set the margins in order to do hanging indents correctly. There's also a discussion of how to set it right if you've done it wrong already (#4).