Formatting your Literature List
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A literature list could look something like this:
Fredrickson, George M., “Racism: A Short History”, Princeton, 2002
Keevak, Michael, “Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking”, Princeton, 2011
Thielen, Marc, “Jenseits von Tradition – Modernität und Veränderung männlicher Lebensweisen in der Migration als
- Provokation für die (Sexual-)Pädagogik”, in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 6/2010, Beltz-Verlag
Wilson, John, “The Role of Early Kindergarten Education” in: Quarterly Journal for Child Pedagogy, 2005/3, Frankfurt am Main
Notice how the first line starts directly at the left margin, but subsequent lines are indented. This makes it easier for the reader to locate the authors even without the use of bold font. You will need a new paragraph style for this purpose:
- open menu Styles and formatting (F11)
- open list of Paragraph styles (left icon on pop-up menu)
- right click on the style Text body
- choose New
- under tab Organiser name your new paragraph style Lit
- under tab Indents & Spacing set the Indent Before text to 0.8cm and the Indent First line to -0.8cm (i.e. a negative number).
- mark all the literature entries in your text
- apply the Lit style by double clicking on it
To sort this list alphabetically mark all the entries, open menu Tools › Sort and confirm OK.
