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RefWorks is web-based software for organizing your literature citations and formatting your paper's references & bibliographies, such as in APA style.
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Using
To Manage Your Literature
Pat RedmanTaubman Medical LibraryHealth 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
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 protected]
• Contact me directly:– Pat Redman [email protected]