How to reformat your references to Vancouver 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 Vancouver

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

3. 3

   Export your reformatted document

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

What changes when you switch to Vancouver

Vancouver is a numbered style: references are cited by number in the text and listed in the order they appear (or per the journal's rule), not alphabetically. Switching from an author-date style means every in-text marker and the reference order changes — exactly the kind of document-wide edit that is painful by hand and instant when automated.

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