Creating/modifying MS Word Bibliographies

Here are the basics of modifying MS Word 2007 bibliographies.

Building a Bibliography Style

The Setup

Let's begin creating our own bibliography style. To do so, we'll create an XML Style sheet, i.e., an .xsl file called MyBookStyle.xsl using your favorite XML editor (e.g. notepad). As the name suggests, our example is going to be a style for a book source type.At the top of the file, add the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!-- List of the external resources that we are referencing --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:b="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/bibliography"> <!-- When the bibliography or citation is in your document, it's just HTML --> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii"/> <!-- Match the root element, and dispatch to its children --> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="*" /> </xsl:template>