Welcome to RefWorks for the Humanities

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Welcome to RefWorks for the Humanities
Social Sciences
by Denis Lacroix
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RefWorks for HSS

• Objectives
• Learning about RefWorks and signing in
• Exporting records from a database
• Managing citation records
• Adding records manually
• Importing citations
• Choosing a citation style
• Checking for bibliographical errors

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Organizing your Records through RefWorks

• RefWorks is a web-based citation manager, i.e. it
  will help you build your bibliographies for your
  assignments.
• Click on RefWorks under Quick Links on the
  right-hand side of the Librarys main Web page.
• RefWorks for New Users
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Acessing RefWorks from off-campus
• Use the RefWorks group code

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Exporting Files to RefWorks from Gender Studies
Database
When saving or e-mailing, click on the
Bibliographic Manager tab to Export items to
RefWorks
Choose  Direct Export to RefWorks  and click on
the  Save  button above!
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How to Export from Other Databases

• Mark the records you wish to export
• View marked records
• Export records from the database to RefWorks
• Click on the RefWorks link in the tool bar, OR
• Click on Save and/or Export

Check Tip Sheets if you are unsure about
exporting from a specific database
Example from Web of Science
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Add a new reference manually, without having to
import one.
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Import references from the NEOS Libraries
catalogue.
Import selected records from RefWorks Advanced
Search results of the NEOS catalogue
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Importing Records from a Database
1. Select Import from the References Menu
2. Find your database in the Import Filter/Data
Source and Database Menus
3. Paste records from a database into the Import
Data box (See next slides for copying records in
NEOS)
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Copying Records from NEOS
Mark records individually and click on the Marked
link in the tool bar to view your marked records
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1. Select Full view and click on the View button
2. Select All records and Copy them. Records are
now ready for pasting into RefWorks.
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Preview your references in any style.
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Always check your bibliography for any errors.
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The error was corrected using the references
Edit function.
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Modify the styles format to your needs.
Choose the folder where your references are.
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Learning RefWorks

• Click on RefWorks under Quick Links on the
  right-hand side of the Librarys main Web page.
• RefWorks for New Users
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Questions?