Introduction Purdue Biblio Text This style is intended for the Bibliography section. You can begin to type out each reference and the subsequent lines of that reference will be indented. Example: Applewood, John (2015, December 17). How to Format a Purdue Thesis. Retrieved from Inserting a Table of Contents In order to insert an automatic table of contents, you will have needed to apply styles to your headings (as shown above). Once your headings have been assigned a style, you can then insert a table of contents that will automatically populate with the correct heading level indentations, leader dots, and page numbers. This will also create an embedded link from your table of contents to the section in your thesis in both a MS Word doc and in a PDF file. To insert the table, follow these instructions: In Ribbon above, click References of on the left hand side of the ribbon Click ‘Table Contents’ Table of the built-in tables Choose ‘Custom Contents’ below After a Table of Contents box pops up, click without making any “OK”, changes within the box Typically, inserting a table of contents, list of figures, and list of figures should be the last step in the formatting practice. If changes to content that moves a heading to you’ve made a different page number, all need to do is go back to your inserted table of contents, you’ll right click, select and select page numbers This will make ‘Update Field’, “Update only”. changes to your page numbers and the headings. won’t affect
Introduction Purdue Biblio Text This style is intended for the Bibliography section. You can begin to type out each reference and the subsequent lines of that reference will be indented. Example: Applewood, John (2015, December 17). How to Format a Purdue Thesis. Retrieved from Inserting a Table of Contents In order to insert an automatic table of contents, you will have needed to apply styles to your headings (as shown above). Once your headings have been assigned a style, you can then insert a table of contents that will automatically populate with the correct heading level indentations, leader dots, and page numbers. This will also create an embedded link from your table of contents to the section in your thesis in both a MS Word doc and in a PDF file. To insert the table, follow these instructions: In Ribbon above, click References Click ‘Table of Contents’ on the left hand side of the ribbon Choose ‘Custom Table of Contents’ below the built-in tables After a Table of Contents box pops up, click “OK”, without making any changes within the box Typically, inserting a table of contents, list of figures, and list of figures should be the last step in the formatting practice. If you’ve made changes to content that moves a heading to a different page number, all you’ll need to do is go back to your inserted table of contents, right click, select ‘Update Field’, and select “Update page numbers only”. This will make changes to your page numbers and won’t affect the headings.
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