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4) Click OK to save these settings and close the Numbering Style dialog. Return to the Styles
and Formatting window, click on the Paragraph Styles icon, choose All Styles from the
list at the bottom of that window, then right-click on Bibliography 1 and choose Modify.
5) On the Paragraph Style dialog, go to the Outline & Numbering tab and select Numbering
1 from the drop-down list. (See Figure 374.) Click OK to save this change to the
Bibliography 1 paragraph style.
Figure 374: Applying a numbering style to a paragraph style
Now when you generate the bibliography, the list will look something like the one shown below for
a book after removing elements from the structure line (the Short name and colon, for example).
Figure 375: Result of changing settings for Bibliography 1 paragraph style
Updating, editing and deleting an existing bibliography
Right-click anywhere in the bibliography. Then, in the context menu which opens:
• Select Update Index/Table to update the bibliography.
• Select Edit Index/Table to open the Insert Index/Table dialog so you can edit and save the
table.
• Select Delete Index/Table to delete the table without a confirmation request.
Tools for working with bibliographies
If you find Writer’s bibliography feature too limited, try Bibus (http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/
wiki/index.php/Main_Page) or Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). Both programs are free and open
source and are reported to work well with Writer.
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