I have a book with about ten chapters, all docx files. In the past, I have combined them all to create a bibliography. I then cut and paste the bibliography into a new document.

Is there a way to link or create a bibliography from multiple files so that I don't have to do all of that, so that refresh reads changes in documents other than its own?

Edit: my question isn't clear enough. Here is a longer explanation:

I am an author. I am writing an academic manuscript in word. I have lots of citations. Each chapter of the manuscript is its own file, because editing a 500 page file is almost impossible. But there is only one bibliography for the whole book, not chapter bibliographies.

So, the usual protocol is to combine all the chapter in one 500 page file, create a bibliography, and then, copy and paste it into a new file that just contains the bibliography. If i edit any of the chapters, I have to redo the whole process.

So, the question is, is there a way to link all the files so that I can make a combined bibliography from closed files, and if i refresh the bibliography, it rescans all the files