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Facharbeit: Citing in the program

This page was translated from German with AI. It has not been checked by a native speaker. Original page in German

Block quotation, footnote and bibliography with a hanging indent: this is how you apply the citing rules in the word processor.
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The video

In the video you see LibreOffice in the browser. The orange frame always shows where you click next. In other word processors the menus have slightly different names; the steps are the same.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:16 Block quotation
  3. 0:45 Footnote
  4. 1:09 Bibliography
  5. 1:44 Summary

The most important points

The long quotation with the paragraph style Block Quotation (Blockzitat): indented, without quotation marks.
The long quotation with the paragraph style Block Quotation (Blockzitat): indented, without quotation marks.
Footnote at the bottom of the page; the program counts the number.
Footnote at the bottom of the page; the program counts the number.

Hanging indent

In the bibliography the first line of each entry starts at the far left, the following ones are indented. That way the names are found quickly.

The bibliography with a hanging indent.
The bibliography with a hanging indent.

With many sources a reference manager such as Zotero helps (free, open source, widespread at universities): it creates references and the bibliography automatically.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). If there is a practice file, you download it above and work in your own word processor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

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Try it yourself

Task

When do you set a direct quotation as a block quotation instead of in quotation marks?

Show solution

When it is longer than about three lines. Then as a separate, indented paragraph without quotation marks, with a reference.

Keep learning with a language model

You are my teacher and help me with my Facharbeit. Check my bibliography: [insert entries]. Look at alphabetical order, consistent form and complete details. Do not correct it yourself, but tell me what I should change.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in LibreOffice (in the browser, with Collabora Online), which checked after every step that the setting was really saved. The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.