Creating a Bibliography from Footnotes

Thanks for this tip!

Another quick way to copy and paste all your footnotes in a list.

Place your cursor in the footnote area. Select the "Select all" tool. All the footnotes will be selected (but not the rest of the document). Copy and paste into the appropriate location.

Hope this helps someone!

Thanks for this tip!

Another quick way to copy and paste all your footnotes in a list.

Place your cursor in the footnote area. Select the "Select all" tool. All the footnotes will be selected (but not the rest of the document). Copy and paste into the appropriate location.

Hope this helps someone!

Removing the number at the start of each entry is straight forward with Find & Replace.

Switching first and last names is a little more difficult and requires multiple passes. The command strings depend on the format of names and is easier if there one or two initials rather than a full first name. Thus if the names are in the form A Smith or AB Smith then three passes are required to convert to Smith AB or Smith A. “Use Wildcards” in the extended menu must be turned on. The commands strings are:
Pass 1:
<([A-Z])([A-Z])([A-Z]) ([A-Z])([a-z^45]@),([^32^13])
\4\5 \1\2\3,\6

Pass 2:
<([A-Z])([A-Z]) ([A-Z])([a-z^45]@),([^32^13])
\3\4 \1\2,\5

Pass 3:
<([A-Z]) ([A-Z])([a-z^45]@),([^32^13])
\2\3 \1,\4

It is best to copy/paste these command strings into Find & Replace as getting one character wrong will produce incorrect results. Make sure that there are no space characters before or after the strings.

Thanks, but still two things need to be explained:
First, when you copy/paste the notes into a new document, all of the notes are started with '1' at the beginning! how to get rid of those '1' ?
Second, how to reverse first and last names?

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Well written and it works!

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You omit directions on how to reverse first and last names. THAT is the tough part.

The instructions were very helpful. Thanks

Thank you very much!

That's an idea, but things can be simpler. Just click anywhere inside a footnote text and hit Ctrl+A. That will select all footnotes, then you can proceed to copy-paste the text in a new document.

Good answer. I've often wondered if this could be done. The right tool for me would prompt at the footnote stage for all the American Language Association data needed (author, title, publisher, city, date, page, etc.) and then produce footnotes and (dynamically) a bibliography in that format. There would have to be variants for other fields, such as law.