How to reformat your references to ABNT in Word

The slow way — and why it hurts

Reformatting a bibliography by hand means rewriting every entry: re-ordering authors, fixing capitalization, moving the year, adding or stripping DOIs, and renumbering in-text markers. For a thesis with 50–100 references that's hours of fiddly work, and a single inconsistency is exactly what a supervisor or journal copy-editor flags. The work also has to be redone from scratch the moment you target a different journal.

The fast way — 3 steps

1. 1

   Upload your .docx

   Upload the Word file that already contains your citations as footnotes or endnotes. DEEPNOTIS extracts every reference automatically.

2. 2

   Pick ABNT

   Choose ABNT from 2,800+ styles. Every reference re-renders from the official CSL definition for ABNT.

3. 3

   Export your reformatted document

   Download a .docx with every footnote and reference formatted in ABNT. Need another style later? Switch and re-export — the work is already done.

What changes when you switch to ABNT

ABNT sets specific rules for author names, capitalization (sentence vs title case), ordering, and how identifiers like DOIs appear. Applying those rules consistently across a whole bibliography is where manual reformatting breaks down — and where re-rendering from one source of truth wins.

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