Citations

Create citations

You can include one or more references to external material such as books, journals, and weblinks as citations with your items.

  1. To add reference citations, click Citations in the right-side panel.

  2. Enter and format your content in the text box. You can Preview , Save, or Discard Changes.

    3. If you are pasting text into this window from another source, highlight the text and then Clear Formatting before saving.

  3. Save the item after saving the citation from this window.

Copy and paste citations from MS Word

  1. Highlight the text in word and right-click it.
  2. Choose Copy.
  3. Right-click in the Surpass text area and select Paste.
  4. An alert will display in the text box
  5. Press Ctrl+V on your keyboard to enter your content into the Paste window.

    6. Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the information as plain text.

Save item Citations

Clicking Save in the Citations text box saves the information to the item while you are working. When you are finished working, save the entire item as usual to finalize your item changes.

Click the Save button at the bottom of the screen.

You can now move to another item, keep working in this item, or close the item. To close an item, click the x button . If you have unsaved changes when closing, a dialog box displays.

  • Choose to Save the item or Discard Changes before exiting.

  • Click Cancel to continue working in the item.

Items remain locked if you leave the item or close the browser without saving or discarding changes. Click here for information on unlocking items.

The new, saved item version reflects your changes since the item's last save.