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Introduction to RefWorks

Explore the benefits of RefWorks, a web-based tool for organizing citations, streamlining workflow, sharing references, and enhancing your research and writing process. Learn how to sign up, add citations, organize references, create bibliographies, and cite sources using RefWorks features.

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Introduction to RefWorks

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  1. Introduction to RefWorks Tom Keays keaysht@lemoyne.edu

  2. Why RefWorks • Accessible • Web-based like most of the databases that you use • Capture citations while you are doing research • Workflow • More than one way to import citations into your database • Organization • Folders allow you to structure how you want to organize so you can find things again easily • Writing • Write-N-Cite integrates your research with the writing process • Sharing • RefShare lets you share folders of citations via a link • Can create throw-away accounts for class projects and group work • Read-only password

  3. What We’ll Cover We will learn how to: • Sign up for an individual RefWorks account • Add citations to RefWorks from databases • Organize citations within RefWorks • Sharing references with RefShare • Create a bibliography from saved citations • Add citations from RefWorks to a paper • Format citations in a paper (create a bibliography with Write-N-Cite) • Cite webpages using RefGrab-It bookmarklet

  4. RefWorks Library Guide • Accessible from “Research Guides” tab of library website • http://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/pubserv-refworks

  5. Create an account • Not tied to your campus login • Be secure! Don’t use your campus login! • Can have multiple accounts • Group Code will be emailed to you • Group Code = LeMoyne • you may need code to use RefWorks off-campus

  6. Adding citations to RefWorks • Manually enter citations

  7. Adding citations to RefWorks • Manually enter citations • Manually Import citations from a text fileor by copying and pasting • Library Catalog • AccessMedicine

  8. Adding citations to RefWorks • Manually enter citations • Manually Import citations from a text fileor by copying and pasting • Direct Export citations from a database (if that feature is supported)

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