A temporary citation is an unformatted citation that you insert into your Word document. You can also type temporary citations into your document. The temporary citation is a placeholder that you can later changes to a formatted citation, such as (Smith & Jones, 1999).
Note: If you have Instant Formatting turned on, you may never see temporary citations. If you plan to use temporary citations, then check to make sure that Instant Formatting is turned off.
There are two formats: Author Date RefID and RefID.
By default, a temporary citation includes the first author’s last name, the date, and the Reference ID, enclosed in curly braces (the default delimiter). For example:
{Smith, 2000 10/id}
You can change the format to display only the Reference ID for temporary citations. For example:
{10/id}
Curly braces are used by default to indicate the start and end of each temporary citation. If you commonly use curly braces in your writing, you might want to select a different pair of markers to use as delimiters.
Enter the desired markers into the Delimiters fields.
You can enter text to print before each note citation. The default value is NOTE.