It’s Back!
Quickly and easily cite
sources in Google Docs
Around September, Google replaced the
Research tool with a new one called
Explore. Explore was designed to
provide suggestions to help the user in
creating a better final product. But
educators quickly discovered the
Explore tool was lacking some critical
components students and teachers
came to depend upon. One of those was
the ability to quickly and easily cite
sources as well as create footnotes in
the Google Doc.
Recently, G Suite has released many new updates including the return of citations as footnotes being a part of Explore. You can change the format of your citation from MLA, APA, and Chicago.
(hint: Explore does bring websites & images based upon what has previously been typed in the document but I still find it’s best is to teach students how to use the search bar at the top and do their own advanced Google search to find exactly what they need from a reliable source.)
For more information on how to use the Google Explore feature, click here: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2481802
