RefWorks: Bibliographic Management System

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RefWorks Bibliographic Management System

• A Brief Overview
• Judy McSorley
• Liaison Librarian for Psychology

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Access to RefWorks

• the usual route for Middlesex resources
• through the Learning Resources Website
• then Electronic Resources
• Databases
• RefWorks under R !
• Athens Authentication required ie. setting the
  cookie, then network login
• Initial registration required facilitates use
  from off campus

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Two Parts of RefWorks

• Bibliographic Manager
• provides folders for storing your bibliographic
  citations
• enables precise organisation of and immediate
  access
• to records
• Write-N-Cite
• requires downloading to the desktop
• use to place saved bibliographic citations
  directly into your own text
• and to instantly create your Bibliographies in
  appropriate styles

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Downloading Write-N-Cite
click
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Downloading Write-N-Cite
Downloads installation programme to desktop
Install to create the Write-N-Cite icon
on your desktop
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Middlesex Catalogue Citations
To save Mdx citations to Bibliographic Manager
select Online Catalog Then select Middlesex
University from the drop-down menu Type your
search term into the box
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Middlesex Catalogue Citations
Select required title(s) by ticking in the
box(es) Then click to Import Further
details may be Viewed
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Bibliographic Manager Folders

• View in Last Imported
• Create New Folder
• Dreaming
• Save record(s) in ..Dreaming folder
  ..tick in box

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PsycINFO Citations
Select required citation(s) - tick box(es) Click
in Direct Export Then Save
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PsycINFO Citations

• Click to Export ..Results to ..RefWorks
• Now
• It is usually ..necessary to ..click the link
  to ..open RefWorks ..at this next screen

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Bibliographic Manager Folders

• As before
• View Last Imported Folder
• Put new citation into Dreaming folder - tick in
  box

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Social Science Citation Index
Save to other Reference Software BibTex works
well Now

Select record(s)
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SSCI into RefWorks
Record(s) save to desktop In RefWorks click on
Import
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SSCI into RefWorks
Highlight saved file on desktop, its location
appears in box above. Select BibTex and Dreaming
folder Finally click
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RefWorks DreamingCitations
Dreaming - 3 citations from 3 different
sources
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Write-N-Cite
Open the document you are referencing and then
log into Write-N-Cite as an Athens user - the
usual method
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Citing within text
Click in the text where you want the
citation Click on Cite next to the record you
want to cite
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Citing within text
The formatting is generic and adapts to which
Bibliographic style is applied
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Creating the Bibliography
In RefWorks from the Tools menu Output Style
Manager offers many styles from which to select
your Favourites
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Creating the Bibliography
back in Write-N-Cite select your chosen style in
favourites Then click to
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The Bibliography