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Spotlight on RefWorks
Barbara Fister
Have trouble remembering whether you capitalize all the words in a journal title in APA style? Whether you need a colon or a comma between date and page numbers in MLA? Do you wish you had an easier way to keep track of citations as you do your research?
RefWorks is a new citation management program offered through the library’s Web page. Once you set up a personal account, you can save references in any of the CSA databases with the click of a button. Using an import feature, you can save off citations in many other databases as well, then import them into your RefWorks account. And you can add references by hand. Stored references can be sorted into different files, annotated, and searched. You can even search the University of Minnesota catalog and download references to your own folders. References are stored on a remote server, accessible by password.
The most amazing feature of RefWorks is that you can select references and generate a bibliography in one of dozens of formats, including MLA, APA, Chicago, or in the styles used by a number of science journals.
This won’t make documenting sources a breeze—you still need to proofread your list of works cited since imported references sometimes need tweaking and you’ll want to ensure your in-text citation matches the work in your reference list. But it can help you manage your citations and save a lot of time.
Check it out by clicking on the RefWorks link on the library’s home page.
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