Beginner's guide to

By

Miss Linda MbonambiInformation Skilling Librarian

University of Johannesburg : APK LibraryTel. 011-5592317

E-mail: lpmbonambi@uj.ac.za

What is RefWorks? Why use RefWorks? Accessing RefWorks Advantages & Caution What RefWorks can’t do What you can do? Create an account Manually entering references Creating folders Search online catalogues Importing data directly & from saved files Format a bibliography from list of

references Write –N-Cite Paper

Covered in this session

What is RefWorks?RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and

database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

Why use RefWorks?

To keep track of what you have red and to create accurate bibliography just a little bit easier…

RefWorks Advantages Import citations from many library

databases (faster & more accurate than typing by hand)

Lets you store and organize your citations Can be accessed anywhere within an

Internet connection Can reformat citations from one style to another in seconds( APA,MLA,CHICAGO) No limit on number of citations in database

What RefWorks can’t doCaution

RefWorks doesn’t write the information---it only reads it!

That means you need to check your references to make sure the fields are entered correctly

HINT: check author, title, periodical name, volume, issue, publisher, page numbers, year of publication

Step 1 -Your starting point

Step 2- Login Group Code (UJ)

Type RWUJ Group code

Step 3-Sign up for individual account

Click on sign up for individual account

RefWorks: Sign up for an Individual Account

Supply name

Create your own login and password

Click Register

You will receive an e-mail confirmation message.

Add your e-mail address

Step 1 –Now you are brought to the RefWorks start screen.

Now you are ready to start building your own database of references….

For TUTORIALS for RefWorks, click on the different steps as outlined in Steps 1-3.

Manually entering references

Manually entering references

Organizing folders

Name of the folder KM

You can name a folder again

•Name of a folder created •Appears in the screen•You can delete a folder•You can rename it•You can also empty a folder

Search online catalogue

Online Catalogue or Database

Search online catalogues

List of institutions you can use to search catalogues

Step 1- Getting reference from a databaseChoose any

database from the list provided ….

An example would be Academic Search Premier available via EbscoHost.

Step 2- Getting references from a database

Select a Database Academic Search

PremierOr

Choose any, that is of interest to your topic

Step 3- Getting references froma database

1. Type in your search term and click search to get result

2. Select add to folder to choose your results,

3. Go to the top of the screen and select folder to view selected references

Type

search term

Click search

Click add to folder

Click folder to see all

selected ref

Step 4- Getting references from a database

2.Click to exportyour list to RefWorks

Step 5- Getting references from a databases

1.Select direct

export to RefWork

s

Click save

Step 6- List from EBSCOhost EXPORTED to RefWorks

RefWorks will open up automatically and you will see the importing screen. As soon as importing is complete, you will be able see how many references were imported.

Click to view your listFrom Ebsco to RefWorks

Here are the citations that we imported, ready to be edited, organized, and placed into bibliographies

Creating a Bibliography

Viewing Your bibliography

Copy and paste into your paper

Your resultsAPA Style

Downloading Write-N-Cite step1

Download Write-n-Cite

This bridges your paper and the citations you store in your RefWorks account

WRITING AND CITING WITH REFWORKS

Writing and citing your paper

Writing and citing with RefWorks

Remember…………

to feel freeto feel free

and ask and ask librarians librarians in the in the library library when you when you need help.need help.

Linda

Thank you