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Bibliography

You can use a Bibliography to cite publications that you’ve referred to in your book. A Bibliography element applies specific formatting appropriate for these citations.

Adding a Bibliography

To add a Bibliography to your book, use the Chapter ▸ Add Element menu and select Bibliography. More details about adding elements can be found in Elements of Your Book.

Listing Citations

In a Bibliography element, you can list citations as regular paragraphs:

Citations in the Text Editor, entered as normal paragraphs

Citation Formatting

In your book, citations will be formatted in a style commonly used in a Bibliography: each entry will use a hanging indent so that subsequent lines of a citation are indented:

Citations shown in a book, with subsequent lines indented

As with a page of Endnotes, text in a Bibliography will use a smaller font size than the rest of the book.

Citing Web URLs

For web-based references, you may want to include the URL in your citation. When you list a URL, you’ll want to make sure that it is formatted as a Web Link.

Using the Web Link text feature to format a URL

When formatted as a Web Link, Vellum applies special hyphenation rules so that URLs can break across lines without using hyphens (which might otherwise be interpreted as part of the URL):

URL shown in a book, wrapping onto a new line without a hyphen