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February 14, 2023 By Karen Kenjosian

Tip Tuesday | How to Edit a Citation

Happy Valentine’s Day! Are you loving our Tip Tuesday missives? It’s no secret we admire you! Let’s get to the heart of the matter with another tip to help you get the most out of Scrible! We would love to know what tips you want in the future! 🙂

Today’s Tip: How to Edit a Citation
When creating a bibliography, it’s essential to have the accurate citations. Scrible automagically generates citations for your sources. However, if an auto-generated citation is missing any required info, you can (and should) edit it to to update and correct it. Here’s how to do that…


Step 1: Go to My Library and…


Step 2: Click on the title of the source to open it.


Step 3: Select the Citation Sidebar to see the citation editor


Step 4: Note that missing elements of the citation glow red. In this example, the journal title is missing. Let’s fix that. 


Step 5: Entering the publication name prompts additional fields to complete. Edit them as needed.


Step 6: At the bottom of the Citation Sidebar, your citation updates in real-time and is auto saved.


Happy Scribling!

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Please let us know what kinds of tips you want to see! 

Filed Under: Product, Tip Tuesday, Training and Support Tagged With: apa, bibliography, citation, citation generator, citations, education, librarians, mla, research

February 7, 2023 By Karen Kenjosian

Tip Tuesday | How to Rename the Title of a Source

It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means! Another Tip Tuesday to help you get the most out of Scrible!

Today’s Tip: How to Edit the Name of a Source
Scrible is a fantastic tool for compiling and citing sources, editing annotations, creating outlines, and writing papers. However, sometimes you pull an article or document into My Library with a name that does not reflect the content. No worries! Here are two ways to change the name of your Source.

When you Know the Name

If you know what you want to call the Source, you can change the name in three easy steps.


When you Need to Find the Name in the Source

Happy Scribling!

Your Feedback Makes a Difference

Please let us know what kinds of tips you would like to see! 

Thank you for using Scrible!

Filed Under: Tip Tuesday, Training and Support Tagged With: apa, bibliography, citation generator apa, department of education, education, format apa citation, mla citation, mla citation generator, mla format

October 8, 2018 By scrible

Scrible Revamps Google Docs Add-on

We’ve totally revamped Scrible Writer, our Google Docs Add-on that helps you bring your research into the writing process in Google Docs. It’s now faster and let’s you view and insert your outline and more easily view and edit your bibliography.

Wait. What’s Scrible Writer again?

To recap, Scrible Writer is our powerful writing companion for Google Docs. Here’s an excerpt showing the previous version of Scrible Writer from our general Scrible Edu demo video (which’ll be updated to reflect recent product changes):

Scrible Writer requires and works with your Scrible account. You can find and install it in your Google Docs account via the G Suite Marketplace or by searching for it within Google Docs under Add-ons > Get add-ons…. Once you’ve installed it, it’ll always appear as one of your add-ons under the Add-ons menu. Whenever you want to use Scrible Writer, simply select it from that menu to load it as a Sidebar that’ll appear to the right of your Doc. That Sidebar represents a slimmed down version of your Scrible Library so that you have easy access to your research while writing a paper. The first time you load Scrible Writer, you’ll need to connect it to your Scrible account.

Previously, Scrible Writer contained your Library’s sources so you could easily browse and full-text search your Library from within a Google Doc while writing your paper. You could click on an annotated passage or comment shown in the Sidebar to add it to your paper. Annotated passages could be inserted as quotes in the Doc and their corresponding in-text citations were automagically inserted too. The citations were also as added to your Bibliography, which was automagically maintained and inserted on the last page of your Doc so you can spend less time on tedious manual formatting and more time crafting your brilliant paper!

Access to the various Scrible Writer features depends on which Scrible plan you’re on. You get a lot in a free plan (Basic or Edu), but of course you get much more if you’re on a paid plan (Edu Pro).

Awesome! Now, what’s new?

First, we’ve re-engineered how Scrible Writer works with Google Docs so that inserting quotes is much faster now.

Second, we’ve updated the interface to a new tabbed layout.  Edu Pro users will see 3 tabs – Sources, Outline and Bibliography.

The Sources Tab works as Scrible Writer worked before. Browse and search your sources and annotations. Click to insert annotations as quotes into the Google Doc and the corresponding in-text citation is inserted as well and your Bibliography is automagically updated in the background.

The Bibliography Tab (available to Edu and Edu Pro users) replaces the previous Bibliography Preview Window that used to float over the Doc when you clicked the previous red Bibliography Button in the Sidebar. That Button is now gone.  You can simply click on the Bibliography Tab to view the current state of your Bibliography at any time. You can change the citation style for your paper here (e.g. from MLA to APA).  You can review what sources are in your bibliography and remove sources or edit their details right in the sidebar.  For Edu Pro users, all changes are synced in real time back to the Bibliography Tab in your Library. Nice!

 

The Outline Tab (available to Edu Pro users) allows you to view the outline you created in the Outline Tab of your Scrible Library.  You can click the Insert Link to insert the entire outline into the Doc, including in-text citations that accompany quotes. You can also click the Edit Link to navigate back to the Outline Tab in your Library, where you can edit the outline.

 

You’ll also notice a new Status Icon to the left of the Sources Tab. This Status Icon will let you know if your bibliography and in-text citations in the Doc are out of date.  If you change your bibliography via the Bibliography Tab in your Library or update the citation details for any of the sources cited in the Doc, the Status Icon will change from a green checkmark to a red exclamation mark ().  Clicking this will trigger Scrible Writer to refresh your in-text citations and the bibliography on the last page of your Doc.  This refresh also happens in the background automatically every time you insert a quote/citation into the Doc. While this is happening, the Status Icon appears as a syncing yellow spinner icon and then turns into the green check mark. Powerful stuff!

 

We think these updates make Scrible Writer much easier to use.  Let us know if you have any questions or run into problems!

— The Scrible Team

 

Filed Under: Enhancements, Product Tagged With: bibliography, google docs add-on, outline

September 1, 2016 By scrible

MLA 8 in scrible Edu

mla handbook 8th ed

Just in time for the new school year!… This summer, we updated our default MLA citation style format to the new 8th Edition published by the Modern Language Association in April of this year. Edu Pro users can still search for and use the MLA 6th and 7th Edition formats. Please let us know if you have any questions or spot any issues with our update.

Learn about MLA and what’s new in MLA 8 here:
MLA Style
What’s New in the Eighth Edition

Happy citing!

Filed Under: Enhancements, New Features Tagged With: bibliography, citation, mla

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