Biology: Writing & Citing (RefWorks)

In keeping with these values [five fundamental values: honesty, trust, responsibility, fairness, and respect], Quinnipiac University expects its community members to comply with the usual expectations for honest academic work. In general, community members

• Must properly cite sources in all papers
  The above is taken from the Academic Integrity Policy Quinnipiac University, Revised November 10, 2007.

Please remember that plagiarism does not only apply to taking the exact wording from a source, but it also applies to paraphrasing, taking someone’s idea, or presenting someone’s work as your own, and not giving credit to the original author. For assistance with your papers and presentations, please contact the Learning Center in Tator Hall. They provide a great amount of help with citation questions.

1. Conduct a search
2. Mark records you wish to save by checking them off
3. Click on "save"  from the options just below the search bar
4. Under Save Citations to file, Selection should default to Selection, Format: Dropdown select  PubMed,
5. Click Create a file. (The file you download will always look like this "pubmed-XXX-set.txt" and the file type will be .txt)

Now in RefWorks

       6. Open  RefWorks

       7. Click +Add from the top left toolbar

       8. Select "Import References"

       9. In the "Import from a file" space, drag or select the .txt file from PubMed into the Import from a file space.   If you cannot find the file in your downloads, try searching by file type (.txt)

    10. A new window will appear titled "What is the format of this file?" -- RefWorks will suggest NLM PubMed Format

      11. Click Import

      12. On the next page, you will be asked to select your Import Options. Here, you can assign your new references to an existing folder if you so wish. If you do not designate a specific folder, your references will be added to your Not in Folder folder.

      13. Click Import to finish the process.

      14. The page will reload and will confirm that the citation has been imported.

You can also type in the title of the article into the Library OneSearch.  Use the instructions from Library OneSearch to Export .  

Library OneSearch:

1. Conduct a search
2. Click onicon to right of the title 
3. Go to folder icon on top next to search button 
4. Click on dropdown under Export As, click on RefWorks
5. Click on Import
6. Click on Go to Last Imported
7. Check off the citations you want to put in a folder.
8. In the top row, click on Assign to folder. Under Assign to folder, check off the folder where you want to keep these citations. To start a new folder, select Create at the bottom. Name the folder. You can create a folder as a subfolder of another one if you wish. Click Create folder.

1. Conduct a search
2. Mark records you wish to save by checking them off
3. Click on Export at top of results list
4. Dropdown select RefWorks under Reference managers
5. Then click on Export

Now in RefWorks

       6. Open  RefWorks

       7. Click +Add from the top left toolbar

       8. Select "Import References"

       9. Select a file from your computer.  Downloads - Select Scopus

       9. RIS Format : Select RIS Format: Scopus, click Import

      10. Check off the citations you want to put in a folder.

      11. In the top row, click on Assign to folder. Under Assign to folder, check off the folder where you want to keep these citations. To start a new folder, select Create at the bottom. Name the folder. You can create a folder as a subfolder of another one if you wish. Click Create folder.

For the complete list of library databases please see the Importing Citations from Databases pages in the RefWorks - New Refworks Guide..