Using

To Manage Your
Literature

Pat Redman
Taubman Medical Library
Health 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