Guide for step 11

Full text & Export

Full text & Export you review the finished text, check citations and set the layout in which your paper should be exported.

The most important focus is on citation options and document layout. If you change something here, you must click Create export again at the bottom right so that new download files are generated with your changes.

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Why Full text & Export matters

In short
This is where the submission-ready export of your paper is created. Therefore, do not only review the text, but above all whether citation style, page numbers, footnote logic, font, line spacing and margins match your requirements.

The content was prepared in the previous steps. In Full text & Export you combine the text with the formal settings and create the files that you can then download.

The preview may differ from the final exported document. If you change citation options or formatting, the newly generated export file is what counts in the end.

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Set citation options carefully

In Citation options, you define which style your sources follow in the text and in the references. Pay particular attention to whether the required university or department style is selected.

Citation style

Search in 2,846 styles...
AllAuthor-dateNumericFootnote
AMANumeric
APAIn-text
Chicago (author-date)In-text
German citation styleFootnote
DIN 1505-2In-text

Search citation style

Use the search field if you know the name of the required citation style. For example, you can search for APA, Harvard, Chicago or German citation style.

Filter by citation logic

If you do not know the exact name, filter by Author-date, Numeric or Footnote. This helps you find the right style family faster.

Advanced citation options for footnote styles

Also review the options Page numbers in in-text citations and Add cf. to paraphrases. These settings visibly change how sources later appear in the text.

Options around footnotes or footnote size are only relevant and visible when the selected citation style works with footnotes.

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Set document layout

In Document layout, you set the formal appearance of the export file: font, font size, line spacing, margins and, for footnote styles, footnote size.

Document layout

Standard

Font

Times New Roman

Font size

12 pt

Line spacing

1.5

Footnote

for footnote style

Margins

Standard

Custom

own values

Font and line spacing

Follow your university's requirements as closely as possible. Font, font size and line spacing have a particularly strong effect on page count and readability.

Margins

For standard cases, you can use Standard, Narrow or Wide. If your university specifies exact values, choose Custom and enter the desired margins.

Cover sheet and abstract

Cover sheet data such as title, name, university, degree program, paper type or submission date comes from Settings. In Full text & Export, you mainly review layout and output format and adjust them if needed.

Whether an abstract is included in the main export also depends on your entries in Settings. You will always find an abstract of your paper in Bonus downloads.

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Create and download export

If you changed citation options or formatting, click Create export at the bottom right. Only then are the files generated with the new settings. The normal Save button does not replace this export.

Downloads ready (Standard, APA)

PDFWord (.docx)Google DocsLaTeX (.tex)Open LaTeX in Overleaf

Almost done

Take a look at Bonus downloads. After that you are ready to give your final StudyTexter files the last polish in your writing program.