RefWorks

Introduction

Refworks is a web-based bibliography database manager. It can be used to create a database of references and to format these for use in reports or papers.

It is also possible to create a group account to share a database amongst several users. Please ask Learning Center staff, if you would like to do this.

Accessing

• Access the LitSearch (http://litsearch.shu.ac.uk/) site with your browser and follow the instructions carefully.
• Use Find Database -> Title search to find the RefWorks Shibboleth database.
• Follow the link to RefWorks Shibboleth

Usage

Add references

• Click on References -> Add New Reference.
• Select the desired format. The preferred format at Sheffield Hallam University is HARVARD - SHU Learning Centre.
• Fill in the form.
  • You can use the user-defined fields User 1 to User 5.
• Store the entry by clicking the Save Reference button.

Import references

If one has logged in to RefWorks already, it is possible to import references from many databases.

Import from MetaDex

Select the papers by ticking the checkboxes and then click on the -Logo.

Import from INSPEC

Select the papers by ticking the checkboxes and then click on the -button.

Import from SCOPUS

References are exported by clicking the Export-button.

ISI Web Of Science

Import doesn't work here. You have to export the references as file and import this file with RefWorks later.

• Select records on the page by ticking the checkboxes.
• Select Bibliographic+Abstract as format.
• Click on Save To File.
• Select Field Tagged (plain text) as file format.

Import from Google Scholar

1. From the Google Scholar search page, click on the Scholars Preferences link.
2. Scroll down to the Bibliography Manager section.
3. Select Show links to import citations into and select RefWorks from the drop-down.
4. Click Save Preferences.

Afterwards each displayed search-record will have a link for importing it into RefWorks.

Create Bibliography

You can use the unique reference ID's generated by RefWorks to generate a bibliography.

LaTeX

Selected records can be exported as BibTex or saved as BibTex - Refworks ID* in a text-file. This file can be used with latex's bibtex package to do automatic numbering of references.

MS Word

• Select Format Paper and Bibliography and specify the filename of the Word-document.
• Click on Create Bibliography.

RefWorks will e.g. replace the template

{{5}}

with a reference to the entry with the unique ID 5.

• The resulting document (with an appended bibliography) should be saved to a file with a different name, because the document with the templates is required to repeat this process.

There also is a software for MS Windows called Write-N-Cite, which can be downloaded (Tools -> Write-N-Cite).

There is a documentation on how to generate a bibliography for an MS Word document.

Other

A bibliography of the selected records also can be saved as HTML, RTF or Text.

Export

Selected records can be exported as BibTex or XML.

Selected records can be exported to HTML, RTF, Word for Window, Word for Mac

Other

• You can perform search on your RefWorks database.
• You can look up the entries sorted by author, descriptor (category) and periodicals.
• You can create collections of references called folders. When removing entries from a folder, do remove them from the folder and not from the database!

See Also

• LitSearch

External Links

• RefWorks
• Sheffield Hallam Refworks Tutorial
  • Generate bibliography for an MS Word document.
• LaTeX Tricks: BiBTeX