This document provides instructions for importing references from the NCBI PubMed database into RefWorks as a text file when a direct import is not available. It outlines conducting a search in PubMed, selecting an article, creating a text file, saving the file, importing the file into RefWorks by browsing and selecting it, and viewing the imported references. The summary is provided in 3 sentences as requested.

1. REFWORKS
Presented and compiled by Jen Eidelman
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/
Email: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za

2. What about importing
files from online database
services that don’t have a
direct import to
RefWorks?
No Problem! We will use the NCBI database to show you
how to import text files.

3. Importing text files
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
From ‘Search & Find’ choose
Databases

4. Importing text files
Choose PubMed from the database list

5. Importing text files
First conduct a search in the search
box.
As an example, use the terms:
biological invasions AND marine
ecosystems
Secondly, click ‘Search’

6. Importing text files
1. Choose the
article you wish to
import

7. Importing text files
1. Click on the down
arrow next to
Send to:
2. Choose File
3. Under Format
choose MEDLINE
4. Click on Create File

8. Importing text files
Choose Save
File and then
OK

9. Importing text files
The file is a text file (.txt)
 Choose File and ‘Save as’
 Name and Save the file as
a .txt file.
 Close the file.

10. Importing text files
Go to RefWorks and Choose
‘Import’ in the ‘References’
toolbar.

11. Importing text files
In the Data Source Field choose NLM PubMed
In the Database Field choose PubMed

12. Importing text files
Click ‘Browse’ to find
the text file that you
saved previously

13. Importing text files
Choose the file
you saved
previously and
then click
‘Open’

14. Importing text files
The file has been added here
Click ‘Import’

15. Importing text files
Alternatively, open the text
file – select all the text and
then copy it into the ‘From ‘Import’
Click
Text’ box. Choose ‘Import’

16. Importing text files
Choose View last imported folder

17. Importing text files
The information has been added to
RefWorks