Updating Citations |
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When you insert a citation in your open document, it is displayed in your document in the reference style you have defined and a bibliography is generated (or updated) based on works cited in the document. If you have moved text that includes footnotes/endnotes, your notes will be properly renumbered. If you cite the same work a second time, a shortened form or ibid. will be used as dictated by the style that you have selected. In order to do these things, the program needs to read the whole file. For long files, this can take some time. If you find that entering citations is slow, you can change the setting in the Auto Update Options dialog so that your citations and bibliography are not updated every time you add a new citation. You can choose to update manually, or only at specified times, such as when you save the file.
Auto Update Options
To change your auto update settings, click Format, References, Auto Update Options on the Nota Bene screen, or click Cite, Auto Update Options on the Ibidem screen. Use the dialog to check or uncheck the options for when you would like to have your citations and bibliographies updated.
The two options at the bottom of the dialog allow you to update citations in accord with the selections you make, but not the bibliography
Update Dynamic Citations
If your citations are not being updated automatically, You can manually update the citations and the bibliography in any of the following ways:
This feature reads and rewrites all of the citations that are controlled by Ibidem, producing new citations and a new reference list in your document. In general, citations and the reference list will be shown on-screen in blue (they do not print in blue). If the record number for the citation does not match the record number in the database, the citation will be shown in maroon or pink. If no record is found, the citation will be shown in red. See Colors Used for Citations.
If you want to edit a citation manually and set it so that it is no longer dynamically linked to Ibidem and no longer subject to dynamic updating, see Dynamic Off/On. Citations for which you have turned the Dynamic Off/On feature off will not be updated when you update dynamic citations, and they will be shown on-screen in green rather than blue. Manual editing is not normally recommended and should be done only if you cannot make the changes you want using one of the methods described in Editing Citations.
If you have turned the Dynamic Off/On feature off for one or more citations, you can turn it back on for selected citations, or you can click Cite, Update All to rewrite all the cites in your document and permanently remove any manual editing that you have done.
Update All Citations
In most circumstances, you should use the Update Dynamic feature rather than the Update All feature. Updating all citations will rewrite all the citations (including green citations) for the current document and permanently remove any text that you have manually changed in your citations. For information on how to edit citations manually, see Dynamic Off/On.
The citations in your document (including those that have been manually edited) can be rewritten in any of the following ways:
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