CiteSmart offers the possibility to users to edit and modify the text displayed for citations. When doing so, users should be aware of important technical details, and using this function inapropriately will result in an erroneous bibliography.

When edited, a citation becomes uncoupled from the bibliographic list. To illustrate this, let's take a "should not do" case. Let's assume that the style in use is a numbered and fusionned style and that there are 4 citations in the document : (1)(2)(3)(4). One can edit the third citation and change it to "third". After formatting and fusion, this would become (1-2) Third (3). The problem here is that the bibliographic index will not change and still display the original order:

• (1) article 1 ...
• (2) article 2 ...
• (3) article 3 ...
• (4) article 4 ...

• The style is not numbered (author et al.)
• One wants to refer to different pages of a same book, report, case etc...

How to edit citations: Go to the menu Word>Edit Citations. If you select a citation in the word document before calling this function, then that citation will be highlighted in the list box below. This will prove useful if you cite multiple times the same citation and want to modify only one of them, or if you have 100+ citations in your document.

Note: when pressing Apply, the current text will be applied to the selected citation but will not close the dialog. Pressing OK will close the dialog box. Pressing restore will restore the citation text to CiteSmart default (it will temporarily set the text to ***RESTORED***) and will get back to CiteSmart default when OK is pressed.