Word Add-in Quickstart

The Word add-in pulls your library straight from the Ad Marginem API and inserts citations + bibliographies into Word documents.

Install

• Microsoft 365 desktop / web: add-in lives in the Microsoft AppSource catalog (post-launch listing).
• Sideload (dev): see Office add-in sideloading and load apps/word-addin/manifest.xml.

Sign in

1. Open the Ad Marginem task pane in Word.
2. If you’re not signed in, the Library tab shows a Sign-in required message with a link to https://api.admarginem.ca (or your configured API host). Sign in there in a browser; the session cookie is shared with the add-in.
3. Click Refresh Library in Settings to pull your library.

Insert a citation

1. Position your cursor where you want the citation to appear.
2. Switch to the Library tab, search if needed, and click Cite on the paper.
3. The in-text citation appears wrapped in a content control tagged admarginem-citation:<paperId> (P13.2) — the scanner uses that tag to find citations later.

Insert / update the bibliography

1. Switch to the Cited tab — it lists every paperId the scanner found in your document.
2. Click Insert Bibliography. The first call creates a content control tagged admarginem-bibliography at the end of the document. Subsequent insertions replace the body in place (P13.3).
3. Change the citation style in Settings → Citation Style and the bibliography auto-renders in the new style.
4. Numeric styles (IEEE) keep document-order; author-date styles (APA/MLA/Chicago/Harvard) sort alphabetically by first-author last name.