New Academic Staff: New RefWorks help

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• Chrome
• Edge
• Firefox
• Safari (Mac)

Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported by RefWorks for new accounts.

To set up a RefWorks account go to sign up.

• Use your full Middlesex email address.
• When you leave Middlesex you can switch to a limited free account.  Change your email address in your account settings.

For help using RefWorks, go to:

• Proquest RefWorks Libguide 
• Videos on the RefWorks YouTube channel.

To link RefWorks to Word, please follow the instructions in the Integration with Word section on this page.

To integrate RefWorks with Word use RefWorks Citation Manager.  

Windows PC

Windows 10 PC with Word 2016 or Word 365 or newer

• Open Word 2016 or Word 365.
• Go to the Insert tab
• Open Add-ins
• Search for Refworks
• Install RefWorks Citation Manager:
• You will then see RCM in the Word ribbon next to Help.
• Click RCM and then the RCM icon to open RCM.
• Log in to Refworks the first time you use it.

For computers running older versions of Word, see the Proquest New RefWorks Libguide.

Mac

Macs running the operating system 10.6+ with Word 2016 or newer

• Open Word 2016 on the Mac
• Choose Insert tab and then Add-ins
• Search for Refworks
• Install RefWorks Citation Manager:
• You will then see RCM in the Word ribbon next to Help.
• Click RCM and then the RCM icon to open RCM.
• Log in to Refworks the first time you use it.

Macs with older versions of Word should see the Proquest New RefWorks Libguide.

Detailed information on this change see the Legacy RefWorks Support Center.   There are two key steps:

1. Set up a (new) RefWorks account.   See the slides on this page for how to do this at Middlesex. There is also this useful toolkit from RefWorks. 
2. Move your references from legacy to new.

RefWorks Citation Manager updated May 2020:  The slides above have been updated to show the new Refworks Citation Manager. 

The recording available via the link below was made on 3rd April 2020 and shows the older version of Refworks Citation Manager.   A new recording will be made next time I teach this online.

Only RefWorks is supported by Middlesex University, so if you haven't decided what to use, please look at RefWorks first.   Alternatives are:

If you have written a document in separate sections, you can easily combine them into one document as follows:

• Make sure all your in-text citations have been created using RefWorks Citation Manager.
• Copy the sections in to one of the existing documents, e.g. add sections 2 and 3 to section 1.
• In Refworks Citation Manager, click the menu button and run Update Document (as below).
• All the citations will be checked and the corrected reference list produced at the end of the combined doc.
• Save this with a new title so you have the original as a back up.

To add p or pp to citations do this:

• Open up your list of References In Refworks Citation Manager.
• Choose Preview and Edit rather than quick cite.
• In the suffix box add your page numbers in the following order. 
• Spaces must be correct:    , p. 2    OR   , pp. 20-21