Open the “Indents and Spacing” tab and set “Special:” to “Hanging”.
Select your references, right-click, and choose “Paragraph…”.
Here’s how to do a hanging indent in Word in a way that applies it to your entire citation list. How to Create a Hanging Indent in Word for References, Works Cited, or a Bibliography ListĪs we mentioned earlier, you’ll be using hanging indents most often when citing sources.
Select your paragraph and move the second ruler marker to change your indent size.
To turn the ruler on, open the “View” tab of your ribbon and press “Show > Ruler”.
(Optional) Adjust the hanging indent in Word by enabling the Ruler.
The results can look different to the preview depending on other formatting factors.
Check how it looks in your actual document.
You can change how far the text is from the left of the page by changing the number in the “By:” field.
(Optional) Adjust the hanging indent size.
Word will automatically set the indentation to the default hanging indent spacing of 0.5″(1.27cm).
Open the “Indents and Spacing” tab and set the “Special” indentation dropdown to “Hanging”.
You’ll find the paragraph flyout by clicking the icon in the bottom right of the paragraph section.
Select your paragraph and open the paragraph dialog in the “Home” tab You can select your paragraph by clicking and dragging over it.
After this point, you can follow the sections below to make it more easily repeatable. This is the quickest way to add a hanging indent to a paragraph if it’s a one-off thing. With that explanation out of the way, here’s how to create a hanging indent in Word: How to Add a Hanging Indent in Word via Paragraph Formatting
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