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Athletic Training Program: Cite with RefWorks

What is RefWorks?

Welcome to RefWorks!

 RefWorks is a way to collect, manage and organize research papers and documents.  You can read, annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.

RefWorks’ drag and drop capability along with our smart document recognition makes it easy and fast to upload documents and bibliographic metadata into your library and the Save to RefWorks feature allows you to capture research from websites with the click of a button.

From simple bibliographies to papers formatted with in-text citations or footnotes, RefWorks handles it all.

Creating an Account

Getting Started

New users must create a personal account to get started.

  • Access the RefWorks website.
  • Select “Create Account” on the RefWorks page.  You will need to enter your Quinnipiac University email account (make sure to use quinnipiac.edu not qu.edu) and create a password.  Next, activate your account (you'll receive an email with a link to complete the registration process).
  • After creating your account, you are ready to populate your RefWorks database with citations.

Please Note

         Click here for additional specific instructions for moving (exporting) references into RefWorks from other databases.

There is a complete RefWorks Library Guide available with a tutorial and additional database export instructions.

CINAHL

  1. Conduct a search
  2. Click on + icon to right of the article title 
  3. Click on Folder View in right margin next to title (just under "Folder has items")
  4. Check box to Select All references
  5. In the right column, click on page icon with green arrow to Export
  6. Select Direct Export to RefWorks
  7. Click on Save. Do not check off remove items from folder after saving
  8. Click on Import
  9. Click on Go to Last Imported
  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

Cochrane Library

  1. Conduct a search
  2. Click the title of the article you wish to import into RefWorks.
  3. Once in the article record, select Cite this Review
  4. On the right side, select Cite this Review
  5. A new window will open: On the top next to Save Citation to: Select RefWorks
  6. Click on Import
  7. Click on Go to Last Imported
  8. Check off the citations you want to put in a folder
  9. 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.

 

PubMed-From the PubMed website

  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.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text

  1. Conduct a search
  2. Click on + icon to right of the article title 
  3. Click on Folder View in right margin next to title (just under "Folder has items")
  4. Check box to Select All references
  5. In the right column, click on page icon with green arrow to Export
  6. Select Direct Export to RefWorks
  7. Click on Save. Do not check off remove items from folder after saving
  8. Click on Import
  9. Click on Go to Last Imported
  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.

Creating a Bibliography - APA 7th edition

You can easily create a bibliography from the All Documents area, any collection or your search results list.  Usually a bibliography will be created from a folder. 

Navigate to the collection you want to use (or All Documents area or run a search and select items) and click the Create bibliography icon .   When the drop down menu opens, click on Create Bibliography again.

 

When the bibliography opens it will appear in the citation style most recently used.  To change the style, click on the arrow next to the style in use, example is APA 7th.  Select a different style from the listing or type in a style in the search box.  Once the new style is chosen, the bibliography will automatically reload. Select the star and it will add this style to your favorites list. Your formatted bibliography will be displayed in your browser for you to copy and paste into any word processing software.