Using To Manage Your Literature Pat Redman Taubman Medical Library Health Sciences Libraries © 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

What is RefWorks? Database software ….provided by the Library ….accessible via the web

Database software

….provided by the Library

….accessible via the web

Why use RefWorks? To organize your references….like an electronic filing cabinet To import your database search results To format your papers and bibliographies according to journal/style specifications To share references for team or department projects

To organize your references….like an electronic filing cabinet

To import your database search results

To format your papers and bibliographies according to journal/style specifications

To share references for team or department projects

Access on campus: http://www.refworks.com/refworks

RefWorks Tutorial & FAQ

Tutorial Basics

Highlighted Tutorials

OVID Medline Search

Direct Export

Export Results to RefWorks

Import from OVID

Last Imported Folder

Descriptors View

Citation View

Recapping Direct Export is easy but not available in all databases. It is in UM-Medsearch, PsycInfo and Dissertation Abstracts. For other databases such as PubMed and Web of Knowledge, save your results as a text file and use File-Import in RefWorks.

Direct Export is easy but not available in all databases. It is in UM-Medsearch, PsycInfo and Dissertation Abstracts.

For other databases such as PubMed and Web of Knowledge, save your results as a text file and use File-Import in RefWorks.

Now in PubMed

File - Save As

Import Filters

Manually Adding a Reference

Use the Folders menu to create folders and organize your references

Create New Folders

Use the Search menu to Lookup

So far we’ve: Built our RefWorks library with references from UM-Medsearch and PubMed Learned how to add a reference manually Used folders to organize our references Looked at the Search menu Now let’s format a paper!

Built our RefWorks library with references from UM-Medsearch and PubMed

Learned how to add a reference manually

Used folders to organize our references

Looked at the Search menu

Now let’s format a paper!

Choose Cite View

Open Word File

Place Cursor, Click Cite, Selection Citation

Drag & Drop Drag and drop Citation into Word document

Clear between cites

Save & close your paper

Creating a bibliography

RefWorks renames file

Important! Autism.doc is not formatted by RefWorks Final-Autism.doc is formatted by RefWorks If you want to make changes, make them to Autism.doc and then reformat in RefWorks again.

Autism.doc is not formatted by RefWorks

Final-Autism.doc is formatted by RefWorks

If you want to make changes, make them

to Autism.doc and then reformat in

RefWorks again.

Need help? Online: remember the Tutorial & FAQ Call or email us: 763-3071 [email_address] Contact me directly: Pat Redman [email_address]

Online: remember the Tutorial & FAQ

Call or email us:

763-3071

[email_address]

Contact me directly:

Pat Redman [email_address]