eXtyles greatly reduces the time an editor must spend editing reference lists and bibliographies and helps ensure that your references are set up according to your organization’s preferred style. eXtyles for the National Park Service includes a Bibliographic References processing function, which automatically identifies a reference entry’s type (journal, book, etc.) and restructures certain reference types based on your organization’s publication style.

The Bibliographic Reference processing function can restructure most journal and book references that have no significant errors with near-perfect accuracy. References that are not restructured are visually identified for manual editing.

Only paragraphs that were styled during the Cleanup process or by hand as References are restructured.

Automatic Processing of References

The Bibliographic Reference processing function can restructure most journal and book references that have no significant errors with near-perfect accuracy. Color-coded styles are applied to the reference, and the reference is restructured according to the organization's style requirements. References that are not restructured are visually identified for manual editing.

After reference processing, each component of the reference is identified and color-coded for easy proofing. A typical journal reference looks like this:

The first item in this example is the reference type tag <jrn>, which specifies the type of reference that eXtyles has identified. Possible reference types are:

• <jrn> Journal references

• <bok> Book references

• <edb> Edited book or book chapter references

• <conf> Conference proceeding

• <eref> Reference to a website

• <lgl> Citation of a legal case or statute

• <ths> Reference to a thesis/dissertation

• <other> References to working papers, patents, maps, and other documents

• <unknown> Unsupported or otherwise unknown reference type

Reference types might occasionally be incorrectly identified as <bok> or <unknown>. Misidentification is usually the result of a punctuation error by the author or a pattern that eXtyles does not support.

Each element in a reference entry is identified and tagged appropriately with a character style by eXtyles during Bibliographic References processing. The following table lists common reference components and their element (character style) names: