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Teachers often struggle to remember all of the different parts to this work flow so you can watch they video below to check out the parts of the work flow that you need.Ĭlick here to read more tips for your taking your Google Level 1 exam.

The citation tools in Google Docs can be a great time saver. ‘References’ for APA style or ‘Works Cited’ for MLA). Select Insert > Break > Page Break to start a new page, then press the Tab key and begin typing the body of your paper. The tool will automatically title this list ‘Bibliography’, so make sure you change it to the correct title for your referencing system if required (e.g. Google Doc's default ident of 0.5 inches is appropriate for APA format. Press Return + Shift at the same time to create a line break (this will be invisible). To do that, insert your cursor where you want to create the hanging indent.

You can also create a hanging indent in Google Docs using a keyboard combination. Do note that the bibliography will insert – yes, in alphabetical order and with hanging indents! – but it will insert where ever your cursor is placed, so be sure to scroll to the bottom of your document before you press “Insert Bibliography”. Select Tab to indent, then type your abstract. Click Apply to get the hanging ident with your preferred setting. Once you’ve collected all of your citations, there is a big blue “Insert Bibliography” button that will appear at the bottom of the Explore panel. As you add more sources to the citations list, they are kept in alphabetical order. And… you can choose from MLA, APA and Chicago formatting. Like most other web-based citation creators, you fill in the blanks with the source information that you have and Google does the nit-picky formatting you know, the item order, periods, commas and spacing that are so tedious in citing source. Under “Tools” in the tool bar, you can also add “Citations”. With a quick click of the “quotation marks” beside an Explore Tool web summary, a footnote to the source will be added. The Explore tool is great for students because searches are from within a safe search environment and most images are labelled for reuse.

If you haven’t used the “Explore” tool before, it is a safe and efficient way to search the web for information and images.