Create a style

Biblioscape comes with 1,000 plus pre-made styles. You can play with existing styles to get familiar with how some of the settings work. In the references module, go to the menu command "Tools | Styles | Output Styles" to bring out the style editor.

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Create a new style

1.	Click on the “New” button under the style table on the left.

Type in the relevant information about the new style. If the style is to be used for a footnote system, check the box "Insert temporary citations inside endnote or footnote". It is recommended to give a short style name. You can put the journal's full name in the "Journal" field. If you have a comment or any other type of information about the style, put it in the "Comments" field. If the style will be used frequently, check the box "Favorite". Enter the "Last Update" as an integer with the year first, followed by month and day. If you have the URL of the journal's home page, enter it in the "Contact" field plus other contact info if needed.
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3.	Click on the “OK” button to save the changes.

Click on the “New” button under table “Reference Type” on the right. A new window will be shown. All the available reference types are displayed on the left. If the sub-style for a reference type has already been added, it will be displayed on the right. To add a new sub-style for a certain reference type, drag it from the left panel and drop it to the right panel. Or, you can do the following.
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5.	Select the available reference types on the left.

6.	Click the arrow button to add the selected reference types (or you can just drag and drop).

7.	Click on the “OK” button.

Define reference type specific sub-style

Double click a reference type specific sub-style to open the editor. There are two tabs: "Citation / Footnote or Endnote", and "Reference List / Bibliography". For styles that use in-text citation, the tab "Citation / Footnote or Endnote" controls how the citation number or author-date should be formatted. For styles that use footnotes, the tab "Citation / Footnote or Endnote" controls what fields to be included in the footnote and how they are formatted.

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Citation / Footnote or Endnote

All the parameters for the formatting of citations as well as footnotes or endnotes are on the “Citation / Footnote or Endnote” tab. After being formatted by Biblioscape, temporary citations in your document will be replaced by text specified in this tab. In the two boxes around the label "Citation", you can add static text in a customized font. In the box "Citation Separator", enter a symbol such as "; " to separate citations when more than one reference is cited together. For example: (Smith, K. 1997; Bowen, P., 1996). You can view the result of the changes you made in the "Citation Box" at the bottom of the window after clicking on the "Update" button.

Defining a style when citation uses number

1.	If citations use numbers, keep the checkbox "Use Number" checked.

2.	You can change the font properties of the citation number by clicking on the "Font" button next to it.

3.	If there are more than two citations in sequential order like 4, 5, 6, 7, you can show them in range form.

4.	Provide the range symbol in the box "Range Delimiter". For example, "-" will make the above example look like "4-7".

Defining a style when citation uses text

1.	When a citation uses text such as "Author + Year", keep the checkbox "Use Number" unchecked.

2.	You can add more data fields to the "Citation Sequence" by dragging and dropping it from list box "Available Fields", or by clicking on the "Insert" button.

3.	To delete a data field in the "Citation Sequence", click on the "Delete" button.

4.	To rearrange the order of data fields in the "Citation Sequence", you can use drag-and-drop, or by click on the "Up" button and "Down" button.

5.	To edit the formatting information for each data field, double click the field name or click on the “Edit” button.

Defining a style that uses footnote or endnote

1.	When citing references such as footnotes or endnotes, keep the checkbox "Use Number" unchecked.

2.	You can add more data fields to "Templates" by dragging and dropping it from the list box "Available Fields", or by clicking on the "Insert" button.

When citing as footnotes or endnotes, "Cited Pages" is sometimes used instead of the regularly used "Start Page" and "End Page". Some footnote or endnote styles require specifying the exact page ranges in the footnotes or endnotes. More information about "Cited Pages" will be discussed in the following section.

Reference List / Bibliography

This group panel provides the means to format a bibliography according to your wishes. References in the bibliography section can be sorted in alphabetical order of text, or by citation appearance order. Usually, when citation uses text such as "Author + Year", the bibliography is sorted in alphabetical order by the first author. If the citation uses numbers, the bibliography is sorted in citation appearance order. As with citation templates, data fields can be added to bibliography templates by dragging and dropping from "Available Fields", or by using the "Insert" button. Before clicking on the "Insert" button, you have to select the data field to insert from "Available Fields", and the place to insert in "Templates". To delete data field(s) in bibliography templates, select it first, then click on the "Delete" button. The order of data fields in the bibliography templates box can be rearranged by dragging and dropping, or by using the "Up" and "Down" buttons. To view the results of changes you made, click the "Update" button to display the formatted text in the bibliography box at the bottom of the window.