Graduation thesis is different from general small thesis, especially master's thesis or doctoral thesis. The average thesis is only four or five pages, while the master's thesis can easily be five or sixty pages, and some can even be seventy or eighty pages. Therefore, if some things need to be modified manually, it will be a very painful thing. There are at least two painful things: automatic generation and numbering of the table of contents, and superscripts of reference citations. This article will talk about some tips from these two aspects, which are automatically generated and very convenient.

Let’s talk about two painful situations first.

After setting up the directory structure of the article, I suddenly found that I needed to add or delete a chapter in the middle. Adding and deleting is easy, but the sequelae is that the subsequent numbers have to change accordingly. For example, if you want to delete Chapter 2, then Chapter 3 of Principles will have to be changed to Chapter 2, and the rest will have to be moved accordingly. The same goes for adding, which is very troublesome.

The second situation is the superscript problem of references. There are dozens of references in a master's thesis. Generally, the papers will require the references to be listed in the order of citations in the paper. If new references need to be added, the superscript numbers of these references will change accordingly.

The table of contents is automatically generated. Simply put, switch the document to outline view, and then set the outline level of the text you want to set as the table of contents. If the outline level is set to level 1, it will be a level 1 directory. Generally, we will set it to level 3, which will generate level 1, 2, and 3 directories. After setting, click "Insert" --> "Reference" --> "Index and Table of Contents" where you want to insert the table of contents. The format can be set separately.

Now let’s talk about these two simple solutions.

First of all, it must be set to paragraph number. Set the first-level directory you want to set as the first-level number, the second-level directory as the second-level number, and so on. Same as the reference, set to paragraph number. A very big advantage of setting it as a paragraph number is that when an item is inserted or deleted, the subsequent items will change accordingly when it becomes better. Therefore, this solves the problem of adding and deleting the middle item while modifying the following items at the same time. There's a numbering problem.

To update the table of contents, you only need to click Update Table of Contents in the "Outline View", or right-click on the table of contents in the page view and select "Update Domain".

After setting the reference to a paragraph number, click "Insert" --> "Citation" --> "Cross Reference" where you need to insert the reference citation, and find the number of the corresponding reference. That's it. Then set the format yourself.

There are also several methods, excerpted from the Internet.

(1) Use bookmarks and cross-reference methods: the numbering and citation steps of references are as follows:

(1) Add several documents at the end of the word document, such as:

[1] Yang Xiuzhang. Word 2000 Chinese version quick use. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2000

[2] Peter Weverka. Diane Poremsky. Chinese Word 2002 expert. Beijing: Machinery Industry Publishing House, 2002

Note that word’s automatic numbering should be used when inputting. If word does not have automatic numbering, you can insert it yourself (no need to go into details...)

(2) Make a bookmark for each document. For example, select "Yang Xiuzhang. Word 2000 Chinese version uses express", insert - bookmark, enter the bookmark name (Yang Xiuzhang. Word 2000 Chinese version uses express), and then add. Note that the bookmark name must start with a letter and can contain numbers but no spaces. Underline characters can be used to separate text, otherwise it may not be inserted. It is best for the book name to be consistent with the document name, so that you can still identify it after its position changes.

(3) At the location where the document needs to be cited, execute Insert-Citation-Cross-reference, select Bookmark as the type, select the item to be cited, and select "Paragraph Number" for the content. At this point, the quote is complete! (Figure 2)

After editing the entire document, select them all, right-click and select "Update Field", and the number will change to the latest position of the document.

There is also a way to cite references by inserting footnotes.

1． Move the cursor to the place where you want to insert the reference, and click "Insert" - "Footnotes and Endnotes" in the menu. (Searched, no duplicates)

2. Select "Endnote" in the dialog box, select "Automatic Numbering" for the numbering method, and it is recommended to select "End of Section" for the location (for papers).

3. If "Auto Number" is not followed by Arabic numerals, select "Options" in the lower right corner and select Arabic numerals in the numbering format.

4. After confirmation, a superscript "1" is inserted there, and the cursor automatically jumps to the end of the article, which is preceded by a superscript "1". This is where the first reference is entered.

5. Change the format of the superscript "1" at the end of the article to normal (remember to change the format, not delete it and re-enter it, otherwise the reference will be moved to a new position and the serial number will not change), and then add it to Then enter the inserted references (the format should be entered slowly according to the requirements of the magazine, there seems to be no way to simplify it).

6. Double-click the "1" in front of the reference, and the cursor will return to the place where the reference was inserted in the article content, and you can continue writing the article.

7． Insert the endnote according to the above method again at the next place where you want to insert a reference. A "2" will appear (Word has automatically sorted it for you). Continue to enter the reference you want to insert.

8． After all the references are cited, you will find a short horizontal line in front of the first reference (can only be seen in page view). If the reference spans two pages, there will be a long horizontal line in the cross-page area. These Lines cannot be selected or deleted. This is a sign of endnotes, but such lines are not allowed in general scientific paper formats, so they must be deleted.

9． Switch to normal view, go to "View" - "Footnotes" in the menu, and then the endnote editing bar will appear at the bottom.

10． Select "Endnote Separator" from the drop-down menu to the right of the endnote. Then the short horizontal line appears. Select it and delete it.

11． Then select "Endnote continuation separator" in the drop-down menu. This is the long horizontal line that appears. Select it and delete it.

12． Switch back to page view, and the reference insertion has been completed. At this time, no matter how the article is modified, the references will be automatically sorted. If deleted, subsequent references will automatically disappear without error.

13． The more references there are, the greater the advantages of this method. When I was writing my graduation thesis, I used this method to insert references into sections. It was so cool! There is a small problem:

If the same reference is cited twice, the endnote can only be inserted at the place where the previous citation was cited, not both at the same time. After changing the article in this way, the numbers of the references inserted later will not be automatically changed.

Finally, I wish those friends who are working on the front line of thesis graduation a smooth graduation!