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

October 8, 2018 By scrible

Scrible Expands Support for Books and Print Sources

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Scrible Edu Pro has long offered the ability to add books and print sources to your bibliography via the Add Offline Source feature.  We’ve now taken this to the next level!  The Add Offline Source option has been replaced with two new options: Add Book and Add Print Source.

 

Working with Books

When you add a book, as you enter its title, we suggest potentially matching books and automatically populate the citation details. You can also enter a book’s ISBN to search by that instead.

 

Once you’ve selected the book and clicked the Create Button, the book is added to your Library as a new source.

 

When you open it, you’re brought into our new Book and Print Source Editor. It allows you to enter passages and annotations from these sources into Scrible. Simply click the Add Passage Button  to show the Passage Editor and then type in a passage and enter its corresponding page number in the book. Page numbers are optional but encouraged because passages are grouped by page to help keep them ordered correctly. The Editor displays each page with the all of passages you’ve entered for that page. By default, passages are added to a page in the order you enter them, but you can drag and drop them within a page to reorder.

 

While editing a passage, a mini annotation toolbar appears atop the Passage Editor with options to set the color and style of the passage. You can apply an annotation type and color to each passage so you can maintain a consistent annotation style across all of your digital sources (e.g. webpages and PDFs) and print sources (e.g. print books, magazines, newspapers, etc.).

 

Once entered, as with annotated text in digital sources (e.g. webpages and PDFs), you can apply tags to annotated passages and add comments to them using the icons appearing to the left of each passage when you hover over it.

 

As with webpages and PDFs, all annotations and tags for book and print sources flow through the system and appear in the Sources Sidebar in the Outline Editor in your Library and the Scrible Writer Google Docs Add-on.

 

Working with Print Sources

The screenshots shown here are for the example of working with a book, but what about print sources like a print magazine or newspaper? Similar story. When you choose Add Print Source in a Library, the print source you enter is added to that Library. Opening the source brings you into our Book and Print Source Editor. As with books, you can add a page number and passage so that your entered passages are grouped and ordered by page. You can apply annotation styles/colors, attach comments and add tags to the passage. In this case, however, the icons are a bit different. Instead of the book icon in your Library, the print source appears as a newspaper icon  and the Add Passage Button is similar . As with the book annotations and tags, everything for a print source flows through the system and appears in the Sources Sidebar in the Outline Editor in your Library and the Scrible Writer Google Docs Add-on.

 

We’d love to hear your feedback on these capabilities. Let us know!

— The Scrible Team

Filed Under: New Features, Product Tagged With: annotation, books, citation, magazines, newspapers, print sources

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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