Academic Styles Overview

Nota Bene will allow you to format your documents according to widely used academic style manuals including the APA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian style manuals. A document created using the Academic Style feature can easily be converted to a different style.

In addition to the major academic style manuals that are supported, there is a long list of publishing styles for formatting citations and reference lists. These styles can be selected on the second and third tabs of the Set Reference Style dialog. This dialog controls the formatting for citations and reference lists/bibliographies only, not for the text of the document. For more information, see in Reference Style.

The Academic Styles feature in Nota Bene formats the entire document including headers and footers, margins, spacing, indentation, headings and subheadings as well as citations and reference lists. Academic styles make use of many of Nota Bene's features including Document Style, Frameworks, Styles, Headers and Footers, Footnotes and various formatting commands.

Nota Bene allows you to edit an existing style manual to create your own customized style manual. See Customizing a Style Manual. In addition, a few institutions have requested support for special style manuals, and Nota Bene has developed styles to their specifications. See Special Style Manuals.

In order to effectively use Academic Styles, you should be thoroughly familiar with Frameworks as many of the Framework controls are used when you write a document in an Academic Style. See the Frameworks and Outlines section of NB Help, and particularly the subsection Working Within a Framework.

There are two instructional videos that demonstrate the use of Academic Styles. Click Help, Instructional Videos, or go directly to this page: www.notabene.com/videos.html.