RootsMagic 8:Adding a Citation

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RootsMagic provides 2 different places to add a new citation:

1. Sources Page
2. Edit Person Form

Adding Citation on Sources Page

When you add a citation on the Sources page, it isn't "linked" to any particular person, family, or fact yet, but it becomes available to use (and reuse) when adding a citation in the Edit Person form.

To add a citation on the Sources page:

1. Select the Sources page
2. Click the citation column of the source the citation is for to open the Citation List for that source
3. Click the + button on the Citation List

RootsMagic will display the Add Citation form. The top half of the Add Citation form will display the source the citation is for. You can actually edit the source fields here, but be aware that any changes you make will affect all citations of this source, not just the citation you're adding.

You can enter the following information for the citation:

• Citation Name - the name that RootsMagic will display in the Citation List. This name is especially important for when you reuse an existing citation.
• Citation fields - The information specific to this single citation. For a free-form source citation, this will be a single field called "Page Number" which just gets tacked onto the end of the free-form source. For a templated source citation there may be multiple pieces of information which are combined with the source fields to create the footnote, short footnote and bibliography.
• Research note
• Detail comment
• Detail reference number

There are other pieces of information (for example, media / pictures) that you may add to the citation once it has been created and saved. These items can't be added until the citation record is actually created in the database since they need to link to the citation record in the file.