[Ale]

I'm writing a thesis at the moment and would like to use captions or
cross-references to insert a "[#]" on my text that would link directly to the
list of references. I've tried using insert-cross-reference-bookmark and
could not make it work, I also tried adding captions and didn't work either.
I've seen a thesis from another student where, if I toggle the fields show:

for the inserts in the main text:
{ REF _Ref113072077 \*MERGEFORMAT }

for the list of references:
{ SEQ Reference \* ARABIC }

can someone help me? can you list the steps I need to take? is this supposed
to be done as a cross-reference - bookmark or as a caption?

Thanks,

Ale