Using Refworks To Manage Your Literature 9907

Using

To Manage Your Literature Pat Redman Taubman Medical Library Health 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

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