Microsoft Edge Citations Tool – Benefits, Example, and Settings Location

What is Benefit of using Edge Citations Feature?

Students and researchers and even content creators can efficiently make use of Citations tool, right inside Microsoft Edge browser. You can easily generate academic or general-purpose citations. You can generate professional citations of the online source by hitting the citations button and customizing the entries, according to your requirement and then copying the generated citation and pasting it anywhere in your document, or thesis.

This citations generator tool helps you in many ways; for example, it makes quite easy to save URL links of some authentic webpages, with published date, publishing entity. You can generate citations in popular formats such as APA 7, Chicago, IEEE, MLA and Harvard. You can copy both in-text citation as well as full citation.

Example of Web Citations

If you do not yet understand the concept of citations, just open any article on Wikipedia. You will see that there are some numbers (1,2,3,4, and so on) is mentioned inside the article, surrounded by parenthesis or square brackets, in superscript text – it is called in-text citation. When you click on this in-text citation, the link takes you to the footer (references) of the article where you find the full citation. Full citation includes author name, date of publishing, organization name with a URL, if somebody wants to the link for detail.

An example of a full citation is given below.

Mark Lawson (August 9, 2005). "Berners-Lee on the read/write web". BBC News.

Settings Location of Citations in Edge Browser

In case, you are going to use citations tool regularly, I suggest you display the citations tool permanently in the toolbar of Edge browser.

Navigation Path: Click Ellipsis or three dots … on top right of browser window to access ‘Settings and More’ (or press Alt+F) → Settings → Appearance → Select which buttons to show on the toolbar: → Citations button.

Toggle the ‘Citations’ button to hide or show in toolbar. The icon of Citations tool looks like a closing quotation mark.

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