Refworks for researchers october 2021

RefWorks for
Researchers
Dr J. Adam Edwards a.edwards@mdx.ac.uk

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• Slides and documents are available at:
• http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/research/training

What is RefWorks?
• Collect, manage and organize references
• Format papers
• Organize, share and cite research

We will…
• Set up an account
• Export from Library Search
• Export from Google Scholar
• Add PDFs
• Share folders
• Citing in Word
• Cite them Right Online

Set up a RefWorks account
• Click No account? Sign up here
• Use your @live.mdx.ac.uk email address and any password
• Verify via your @live.mdx.ac.uk email > see next slide
• myUniHub > My Study > My Library > Databases > R > RefWorks
• OR https://refworks.proquest.com

Setting up an account continued…
• Verify account via University email
• myUniHub > My Middlesex > My Email
• Check Junk email folder
• Complete RefWorks form
• RefWorks home page opens

RefWorks home page
• Complete form and brief tour
• RefWorks home page looks like this:

Action: set up a RefWorks account
• Find RefWorks
• Create and verify your account
• Complete the form and the brief walk through

Adding resources from Library Search
myUniHub > My Study > My Library > Library Search
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Export from Library Search to RefWorks
myUniHub > My Study > Library Search
> Export to RefWorks

Always use new Refworks

Your RefWorks library – last imported

Action: add to RefWorks
• Find an article with Library Search
• Add to RefWorks
• Save PDF to desktop for later

Export from Google Scholar

Sync with RefWorks

Library links
To read full text must be logged in to myUniHub
WorldCat: Tells you where it is, but no access

Results with full text
If asked to choose Legacy RefWorks (orange) or New RefWorks (blue):
 Tick box and choose New RefWorks

Action: add to RefWorks
• Find a Full Text article with Google Scholar
• Add to RefWorks
• Save PDF to desktop for later

Your RefWorks library
If you are in Last Imported, click All References

Tools – save from internet to RefWorks
• Drag and drop in your browser
toolbar/bookmarks bar
• If you cannot see your browser
toolbar…next
Tools > Tools > Install Save to RefWorks > drag & drop black button

Add to your bookmarks toolbar - Firefox
If bookmarks toolbar is not showing
in Firefox, click it here >>>
Google Chrome …. next slide

Add to your bookmarks bar - Chrome
If bookmarks bar is not showing in
Chrome, tick it here >>>

Add a web page to RefWorks
• Go to a web site
• Click Save to RefWorks button in browser
• Select the item to save (if required)
• Click Save to RefWorks

Action: add web pages to RefWorks
• Set up Save to RefWorks
• Add something from the internet
• Possible problems:
• Bad data
• Records may need editing (see later)

Any questions so far?
• Found things
• Library Search
• Google Scholar
• Added to RefWorks

Five minute break

Next…
• Basic referencing
• RefWorks Citation Manager
• Perfecting your references
• Uploading and importing
• Folders

RefWorks and writing
• Creates references
• Thousands of styles
• Add citations to text – one click
• Generates bibliography or footnotes
• Cite them Right – Harvard
• Set your default

Basic: Create bibliography > Quick Cite
Create bibliography > Quick Cite > Choose citation style > Continue…

Quick Cite: Insert citations; add bibliography

Word 2016+/365 – RefWorks Citation Manager add in
Word > Insert > Get Add-ins > RefWorks > Add >
RCM tab > Login to sync
You must be logged into your Microsoft Account for the add-in to work

RCM set up

RCM cite this
TASK:
• Type some text
• Press Enter twice to add two lines after your text
• Add a heading: References
• Press Enter twice to add blank lines after References
• Click in text where you want to cite
• Add space after the final word but before full stop
• Click Cite This
• Citation and reference list automatically created

RCM – instant citation and reference
• Citation and reference automatically created
• If reference creation default is off – next slide…

RCM – if references don’t appear
• Bibliography generation default is off – switch on
Presentation Title | 35

RCM – add page numbers to citation
Click the reference
Click Edit this
In the suffix box add:
• 1 x comma
• 1 x space
• p. OR pp.
• 1 x space
• Number OR
• Number – Number
• Full stop
Untick Author for date
only citation
e.g. Kim and Shumaker
(2015, p.21) state that…

RCM – change citation style
Remember to refresh document if you change or edit references

Action: create references
• Set up RefWorks Citation Manager
• Write something
• Create a citation and reference
• Change the citation style

Perfecting your references – normal view

Perfecting … – table view, find duplicates
Or use the find duplicates tool >>>

Perfecting… - Citation view; missing bits

Perfecting … – edit your references
• Is the resource type correct? If not change it
• Click title > lightning bolt by title – overwrites reference
• Click title > lightning bolt by DOI - apply changes to add to reference
• Manual edit e.g. tags

Action: perfecting references
• Try different views
• Check for duplicates
• Citation view
• Edit a reference

Upload pdf to saved reference - best
Open the reference > drop in the PDF
PDF added to high quality reference

Upload pdf - drag and drop
• RefWorks creates reference from information in the PDF
• Will need to edit the reference created

Upload pdf – add and upload
+ Add > Upload Documents > File Upload > Click file
Useful when finding files in folders

Action: saving pdfs
• Drop PDF into a reference
OR
• Drag and drop in to RW, then
• Edit the reference

Saving to folders in RefWorks
Main folder: Separate instances of RefWorks for different projects
My folders: Create and sort folders for different parts of a project
• Create folders and sub folders
• Populate by dragging and dropping from All References.
• You can have a reference in more than one folder

Share your folders
Invite other RefWorks users to read, annotate or modify

Action: folders and sharing
• Create a folder
• Create a sub folder
• Share a folder

Any questions?
• Basic referencing
• Refworks Citation Manager
• Uploading and importing
• Folders
• Projects

More on referencing: Cite them Right Online
myUniHub > My Study > My Library > Referencing
> Cite them Right Online

https://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/plagiarismreferencing/NewRW
RefWorks help

Our other library sessions
• Advanced Literature Searching:
• Citation searching with Web of Science
• Best journals in your field
• Repositories and FREE Inter Library Loans
• LinkedIn Learning
• Activate
• Set learning goals
• Certificates in LinkedIn

Any questions?
Adam Edwards a.edwards@mdx.ac.uk
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