Watch our video for practical tips to do it quickly and accurately – and then import your bibliography into Word, InDesign or WordPress.

When clients send mixed-format references (for example, full first names vs initials), manually tidying a long bibliography is painful. The quickest way to collate and standardise citations is to use BibGuru (bibguru.com) – paste a DOI or URL, click Add, choose your citation style, then copy the formatted bibliography.

Microsoft Word (keeps italics automatically)

• Go to bibguru.com > Get started
• Paste a DOI or URL > click Add
• If it’s not found, use Search (title, author, ISBN) or More to add books, chapters, etc
• Choose your citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc)
• Click Copy to copy the formatted bibliography
• Paste into Word – italics come through correctly
• Save the file as a .docx if you’ll place the list into InDesign later

Tip: The free version shows ads, but the output copies fine.

Adobe InDesign (retain italics via Place)

• First paste the BibGuru bibliography into Word and save as .docx
• In InDesign, go File > Place… and select the .docx
• In Import Options, enable the text style options you prefer (for example, preserve styles and formatting)
• Click into your text frame to place – italics are preserved

If you paste directly from the browser into InDesign, italics are likely to be lost; placing a .docx keeps them.

WordPress (paste in Visual mode)

• Click into the post or page editor and switch to Visual (not Text/HTML) mode
• Paste the copied BibGuru bibliography
• WordPress imports italics as proper emphasis – no extra cleanup required
• Update or preview the page to confirm headings, spacing and lists look right

Troubleshooting:

• If a DOI doesn’t return the right record, try the article title or author in Search, or add via More > specific source type
• After pasting, spot-check capitalisation and punctuation per your house style

Need help making your reports, white papers or research more consistent? Call 3366 8166 or contact us today — we’d love to help streamline your workflow.

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Raster

The most common raster images are photos, and they’re made of numerous dots called pixels. Standard raster formats include JPG, TIF, BMP, PSD, PNG and GIF.

If you need your logo for a website or other onscreen purpose, then a JPG might be suitable, but PNG or GIF format might be better (we’ll have to cover that in a future article).

Above is a JPG version of our logo which is only 72 dpi, and when used at this particular size on a website it’s perfectly fine. If you look at the inset, you can see the separate pixels.

• So if this particular JPG was printed 1 metre wide for a banner at a tradeshow, it would look dreadful (see the section on vector images below)
• If it were used in an advertisement on a cinema screen then it would also look terrible, because it hasn’t been created at the size and resolution to suit that application

Vector

Logos and fonts are typically vector (or at least the original artwork should be), and this is ideal for signage and printing.

Formats like Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Adobe Illustrator (AI) and Portable Document Format (PDF) are vector when drawn properly. Let me explain the difference.

You can open a photo (which is made of raster pixels) in Photoshop or Acrobat and save it as an EPS. And while this is an EPS file, it’s just an EPS file with a raster image saved within it.

A proper vector image however is made of lines and curves. And so if it’s drawn properly, it should theoretically be able to be enlarged to any size, and still look perfect. The only limitation is the quality of the substrate and the printer producing the piece.

Need professional designers who can create artwork you’ll love — in every format you need? Call 3366 8166 or contact us today.

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