How bibliography entries work?
Hello, I just bought StarOffice. I am working on a university paper and want to add in-text citation and bibliography and thought that the bibliography database would make that all much simpler and more consistent.
However, I really don't understand how it works.
For example, I added to the database a book I want to cite.
Short name BEAU1981
Author Beaugrande, Robert de and Wolfgang U. Dressler
Title: Introduction to Text Linguistics
etc
Then, I go to insert this bibliography entry and I get a field that looks like --> [BEAU1981].
What is this? Is that all? How is that converted the actual bibliographic entry I want to print in my paper?
I don't want the short name! I want the full entry.
Please help me, it drives me mad! Why would I want to have a silly [BEAU1981] in my text?
