Adding Abstracts and Tables of Contents
Write an abstract to summarize the main contents of a text. For book sources, the table of contents can be a good source of additional information about the book's contents. You can also add ratings and your own notes.
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Switch to the Contents tab. |
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Abstracts come from many different sources. Many research databases include the abstract. However, you can also write an abstract yourself or search for one online. |
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To add an abstract from a webpage, use the Picker. Right-click to open the Picker menu and click Copy selection and URL to Clipboard. This way, you can keep track of the abstract' source information. |
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Next, paste the contents of the Clipboard into the Abstract field with CTRL+V. |
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Increasingly, library catalogs include a book's table of contents as a PDF file. If you would like to include this information in an annotated project bibliography, you should copy this informatino from the PDF to the Table of contents field. Use the preview pane to do this. |
Hint: Often you may need to fix text copied from PDFs, since line breaks cannot be correctly copied. To easily remove these unwanted line breaks press F9. On the Format menu, click Remove paragraphs and tabs.