With the release of iPadOS I am looking to buy the new iPad pro. It would be my primary device, as my Macbook Pro recently broke, so it would be used throughout my final year at university. I know you can add footnotes and endnotes to documents on Word for iPad, but my course requires Harvard style referencing. Is this a possibility on Word for iPad (like it is on Mac), or would I be required to use a third-party app for my referencing?
You would need a 3rd party reference manager. I do not believe that the iPad is quite there for serious academic writing.
You could use this app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jTSmQRqYs
I found it slower to do things on the ipad than on a mac computer.
Have you looked around your school to see that other students have successfully used an ipad to do your curriculum? Some online courses would not work with an ipad. Hopefully, this has changed.
R
You may wish to check what functionality Word provides in its iPad configuration. Chances are good that you will be able to have consistent functionality across platforms.
I find your question very confusing.
First, I use Apple's Pages, and have not used Microsoft Word for nearly a decade. But aside from that, I know "Harvard Referencing" (aka Parenthetical Referencing) simply refers to how one formats footnotes.
So why would a word processor constrain how one's footnotes are formatted? You can format them in Pages as you wish, so I would imagine that applies to Word as well.
Hi,
Thanks for your reply and sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the fact that on Word for Mac/PC there is a “referencing” tab where you select your referencing style (I.e. Harvard) and it pops up with a form you fill out (so, for example, name, title, date published) and makes the citation shortcut and bibliography for you automatically.
Of of course it’s still possible to reference that way if I type it all in myself, it’s just a very handy shortcut to use as it does the hard bits for you.
Ah, OK, thanks for the clarification.
The answer requires a good knowledge of Microsoft Word, so I'm sorry but I'm the wrong person to answer.
I don't think Apple's Pages offers footnote templates as apparently Word does.
Good luck!
This isn’t available on word for iPad, unfortunately. I just checked on my iPad Pro there.
iPad for academic writing - Harvard referencing?
