Bibliography
Auto-generate a bibliography in the Dock Editor from the citations in your document, formatted to your chosen style, in numbered or author-date order.
The bibliography is the reference list at the end of your document. Dock builds it from the citations you have inserted, so you never assemble or alphabetize it by hand. As you add, remove, or reorder citations, the list keeps itself current.
Every citation you insert adds its source to the bibliography. The list is generated from the document’s citations, which means it is always complete and always matches what you actually cited. Remove a citation and its entry leaves the list; add one and it appears.
The bibliography follows the citation style your document uses, one of APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, AMA, or Vancouver. Switch the document’s style and the reference list reformats with it, the same single action that reformats the in-text markers. See Citations for switching styles.
Citation styles handle the reference list two ways, and Dock follows whichever your style calls for:
- Numbered styles, such as IEEE, AMA, and Vancouver, list references by the order they appear in the text and mark each claim with a number. When you reorder or insert a citation, the numbers and the list renumber themselves.
- Author-date styles, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard, mark claims with the author and year and list references alphabetically.
You do not choose the ordering separately. It follows from the style, the way the style guide intends.
Open the bibliography panel from the editor to see the reference list as it stands. It updates live with your citations, so the panel is a running view of every source in the document. To save and organize the underlying sources, see the Citation Library.