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Flow offers two optional tools to help you write your paper - ProQuest for Word (which works with Microsoft Word) and the ProQuest Flow Add-on for Google Docs (which is covered in this article). You can also create a simple bibliography from your references right in your Flow account.
Any additions, changes or deletions you make in your Flow account are automatically synched with the Google Docs Add-on. Note: changes are NOT made to any in-text citations or the bibliography in your document.
Installing the Google Docs Add-on for Flow
2. You’ll be asked to “accept” certain conditions of using the add-on:
3. Once you have accepted the conditions, you’re brought into your new document and are ready to start writing your paper.
Working with the ProQuest Flow Add-on for Google Docs
Continue to add citations and watch your bibliography update right in front of you.
You can also add footnotes (make sure your output style supports them!) by using Google Docs footnote option (Insert, Footnote):
Changing your output style:
There are two ways you can change your output style for your paper:
Note: Custom output styles are currently not accessible.
Deleting or changing citations
Any additions, changes or deletions you make in your Flow account are automatically synched with the Google Docs Add-on. Note: changes are NOT made to any in-text citations or the bibliography in your document.
Collaborating with others
Google makes it easy to collaborate with others on your paper. Now you can take that a step further, by collaborating with other Flow users!
Share your document with anyone who has a Flow account and in addition to adding and editing text to your document, they can also add in-text citations and footnotes from their Flow account.
There are two ways you can share your document with others:
To share your document with someone who does NOT have a Flow account:
1. Click the share icon .
2. Enter the name of the person you want to share with:
3. The person will receive an email with a link to create a Flow account and then access your document with the “can edit” permission (you can modify the permission by clicking on the Share button and selecting “can comment” or “can view”).
You can even collaborate using the same set of references by sharing your Flow collection with your collaborators. Read more about sharing a collection.
Note: Anyone you share with can also delete in-text citations you included in your document however, they cannot delete references from your Flow account.
To share your document with someone who has a Flow account:
You can even collaborate using the same set of references by sharing your Flow collection with your collaborators. Read more about sharing a collection.
Note: Anyone you share with can also delete in-text citations you’ve included in your document, however, they cannot delete references from your Flow account.