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Adding Citation/Bibliography Styles in Word 2008 (Mac)

I’m currently writing my University dissertation, which requires the use of the Harvard referencing system. I like words referencing system (at least in windows), but it doesn’t include the style for Harvard referencing, but I have a XSL file for doing it. Not a problem in Windows, it’s just a case of dropping it in the Bibliographies folder in the office directory and its available. However Word 2008 for Mac is a different matter.

The first issue is finding the folder to put the XSL file in. It’s hidden and looks like a nice simple word icon, it’s not it’s a package. To get to the folder for bibliography styles do this:

Go to Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/. Select the Word app, right-click it (or control-click) and select Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents/Resources/Style/. You’ll see a bunch of XSL files in the Style folder; drop your XSL file in here.

You’d think that would be it, restart word and done. Unfortunately not, Word 2008 doesn’t like the style of the XSL file, so you need to change the following parts in a text editor:
1. On the first line: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
change this to: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
2. Line 13: <xsl:output method=”html” encoding=”us-ascii”/>
Change this to: <xsl:output method=”html” encoding=”UTF-8″/>

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18 Responses to “Adding Citation/Bibliography Styles in Word 2008 (Mac)”

  1. Fabio Says:

    March 16th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    HELLO!
    Very interesting post!
    I am not an Html expert,
    is it possible to publish your harvard stye code?
    Let me know
    Tx
    Fabio

  2. Reddy Says:

    May 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Hi,
    I get the numberical reference in the body of the text. But, I do not get the bibliography in this style, what am I doing wrong?

  3. jakudo Says:

    May 17th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Thanks a lot! I’m also writing a bachelor thesis and need to change the style to style of my university :)
    Good luck with your dissertation!

  4. drymek Says:

    October 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Works! Thanks.

  5. Tim F Says:

    October 11th, 2009 at 1:47 am

    Hi!

    I’m also attempting to get some sort of Harvard referencing system in Word 2008 (Mac). Any chance I could get a copy of your XSL file?

    Thanks,
    Tim

  6. admin Says:

    October 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I will try and locate the file I used, but this has formatting specific to my University. I did have a collection of word referencing XSL sheets at one point, I will try and locate them.

  7. XSL Citation/Bibliography Styles for Word Says:

    October 13th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    [...] my post on getting Word for Mac to recognise new citiation styles, I got a number of requests for stylesheets to use for Harvard style referencing. I’ve found [...]

  8. Brenton Says:

    October 14th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    hey

    i cant locate a styles folder but i do have a resources folder. should i drop the XSL in there?
    also, not sure what to do with the whole text editor part. could you explain it a little simpler for me… im not real savvy with computers. thanks!

  9. admin Says:

    October 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    If you do not have a Styles folder in the resources folder, I would suggest creating one.
    As for the text editor, you need to open the XSL file in a text editor, so textpad, textmate etc, and change the text in the file as stated.

  10. Brenton Says:

    October 16th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    oh k. i worked out that but it was being a prick telling me that it couldnt save with the encoding ISO-8859-1. so i just changed the top line to UTF-8 and it worked. thanks heaps man!

  11. Brenton Says:

    October 16th, 2009 at 8:46 am

    oh wait… im stupid.

  12. Christina Says:

    October 30th, 2009 at 2:23 am

    so my file was basically the same except the second utf wasn’t capitalized… I made it capitalized and it worked! thanks a bunch… these little things can be really frustrating

  13. Liu Says:

    January 10th, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Sorry but may I know what is a XSL file?

  14. flora Says:

    April 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    I can add numerical citations now but (a) they all come up as number 1 (“[1]“) and I too can’t build a bibliography at the end: it only offers the 4 built-in styles. Any help would be appreciated!

  15. Gherardo Says:

    April 25th, 2010 at 11:21 am

    I’m using Office 2008 for Mac. I have added few styles in my styles list, and they do show in the box where all the citations appears (the floating one), but when I try to add a bibliography at the end of the document I can only choose from the four original styes pre-installed in word, so it becomes quite useless to have all my titations in my own style, since it makes me upload all the citations to one of the four styles to add the bibliography.
    Anyone knows why it is not showing in the bibliograpy styles my own style?!?!?
    Plz help!

  16. Keeny Says:

    June 22nd, 2010 at 10:01 am

    brilliant – why is this vital piece of information not on the bibword site?!

  17. Derek Says:

    July 20th, 2010 at 10:10 am

    I too can add the citations in the text but cant form a bibliography in the new styles. Any help would be much appreciated.

  18. Chris Says:

    September 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    Thank you, it works perfect.
    I just had to replace the quotation marks in the code as I used the copy/paste…

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