Using RefWorks to Manage Your Literature

What is RefWorks?
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

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.

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!

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.

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

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Using RefWorks to Manage Your Literature

by University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library on Apr 13, 2007

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