Easy Bibliography?

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Hi Zachary,

Although I don’t currently need bibliography features as I’m writing novels and screenplays, have though considered using some of the cross-reference features that the lovely AmberV of Literature and Latte has extolled to a few people wanting help with glossaries?

Although @AmberV has touched upon glossaries a few times in various threads, this is the post of hers I found the most helpful for my situation:

Tag words for glossary

I am writing a book and would like to tag words in the text for inclusion in the glossary. In other words, I’m writing away, type a word or phrase, think “that should be in the glossary”, and want to quickly tag it without interrupting the writing flow (e.g., by going to the glossary and typing it in, then returning to the text). Is there an easy way to do this? Pardon if I’m missing something obvious.

What I used this workflow for was to create a running reference guide for myself in a new top-level folder I call my Codex (it’s a fantasy novel). The first time I invent a new word in my conlang or if I use a term that means something different for my magic, I create a link as AmberV outlines and then link it to a document within my Codex folder.

In a previous professional incarnation, I worked as a legal assistant and used Word’s features for a laborious thing called Tables of Authorities—when attorneys create a sort of table of contents, but for all the legal citations. In Word, I’d use the full citation the first time in a document and then link back to it when using the short citation.

You can do something similar using AmberV’s glossary steps:

1. Write your glorious text and throw in a short or long citation to taste, e.g.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling, 1997, pp 13-24)
2. Create links in your short citation from your footnotes/endnotes or within the body of your text such. The first time you cite to a source, when the document window pops up, give all the gory details that you want in your final bibliography.
3. For all subsequent uses of the source, use the double bracket method to link back, e.g.: [[Sorcerer’s Stone]] — make sure you have the feature enabled to convert these to links automagically
4. When your authoring is done, go to the folder you created for all of your cited sources. Use the Edit | Sort feature on your Bibliography folder.

Make sure all of your citations use a citation format that will work for quick sorting. Meaning, if you want to sort alphabetically by author, put the author surname first; if you want to sort chronically, make sure the year is first, etc.

When you’re ready to create your bibliography or to share it, use Compile features to make it look perfect. If you’re exporting to Word, you’ll have a lot of WYSWIG options, but if Scrivener is your main/only word processor, you’ll need to learn a bit about Compile formatting, which I’m a novice at myself.

Hope this helps.