Learn how to add references for research papers, journal articles, books, and other sources in Microsoft Word.

Lucky for you, adding page numbers to your digital documents, whether that's a technical manual on Google Docs or an eBook on Microsoft Word, is a pretty straightforward process.

You can work with any Word document, but you’ll want to add a field that doesn’t update automatically to the body of the document. There are three pages. On page 2 is a text reference.

Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.