Like in Google Docs, you can use Paperpile to seamlessly cite as you write in Microsoft Word. You can download our dedicated Word plugin from our website.
Below you’ll find steps to install Paperpile for Word (on both macOS and Windows), as well as an overview of the plugin’s main features.
To insert a citation, either click the P button in the toolbar or use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Cmd-P (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows and Linux) to open the citation window:
Start typing to search within your library. Paperpile will search within the title, keywords, abstract, and other fields of all references in your library, just like when you search from the main Paperpile web app:
Select a result and add it to the current citation:
To add another item to the same citation, just start typing again. When you have finished creating a citation, click Insert citation to add it to your document. For advanced editing options, click the blue bubble:
The upper part of the panel shows a familiar overview of the citation metadata, with the option to edit reference metadata and a link to open the item in Paperpile.
Below that are three advanced citation options: