When you are preparing a a prospectus for your dissertation, the graduate school often requests a working bibliography for the sources you intend to draw upon for your research. You can also use the bibliography feature to write bibliographies for course materials. When the paper you are writing requires only footnotes, you can simply copy a formatted citation from the Preview box to your word processing document as a footnote or reference list citation. This method is also useful for other types of papers which will not require that the references be reformatted in different citation styles, such as legal documents. When you are writing longer papers, you will want to be able to insert Access keys - or citation "markers" - in your documents, and have Citation write the intext citations and reference list in the style required by your instructor or publisher. Citation can write references for your papers in almost any style, offering you over 1000 styles from which to choose. We've included some detailed guides, here, for using Citation to format your references in the most widely used styles for graduate schools, writing programs, and widely circulated academic journals.