Using RefWorks to Manage Your Literature

Using

To Manage Your Literature

Pat RedmanTaubman Medical LibraryHealth Sciences Libraries

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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– medical.library@umich.edu

• Contact me directly:– Pat Redman pmr@umich.edu