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November 13[edit]

Merging review paper subtopics[edit]

My professor gave us the task of writing a review paper. Its first time for us. We are 5 in group so we decided to split the work into subtopics. So we searched for various scientific papers and prepared document individually, As given below
Student 1
content(1)
refs
1) citation
Student 2
content(1)
ref
1) citation
Now I have to merge all 5 parts. The citation number begins from (1) for each student but I will have to correctly order it. So there are at least 100 citations and as we did work separately many would be rereferenced so I would have to check each one. Is there any easy way to do this. Or am I supposed to look each citation manually and change each number. All citation are in harvard style -- Parnaval (talk) 17:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What program are you using to edit the paper?--Phil Holmes (talk) 18:18, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We individually just made a MS word document.😶 -- Parnaval (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Have the citations in the separate contributions been added using the Insert Citation feature of MS Word? --Lambiam 11:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NO :( We just copied the Harvard citation from google scholar and pasted it. And then numbered it as shown above. Now, I feel that I would have to do it manually as there is no standardization (Some used in built custom numbering, some manually numbered) so I will have to do it manually. But still someone tell me, what is standard way we could follow from next time so that merging is easier. Also, I didn't use Insert citation feature as that would require me to manually fill all fields, but here copy paste was easier. -- Parnaval (talk) 12:00, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Endnotes should automatically renumber themselves if you copy and paste the sections from the separate documents.--Phil Holmes (talk) 08:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! they renumbered, It saved me a lot of work. Still I had to change the citation numbers near content. -- Parnaval (talk) 03:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]