Learn how to add references for research papers, journal articles, books, and other sources in Microsoft Word.

Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.

In Word, you can use Cross-reference to refer to specific places within the document. Insert captions lets you label objects, figures, tables, equations.

You can insert a footnote or endnote in Word from the References tab of the ribbon. Both serve as supplemental information to your document.