Creating Your Document

Using Write-N-Cite

Create a paper using the RefWorks Write-N-Cite feature (MS Word users only).

Note:
To use this feature, you must first download the Write-N-Cite utility from RefWorks. Write-N-Cite can then be launched within Microsoft Word by clicking the toolbar icon or by selecting it from the Tools menu or your program menu.

• Open a new, blank document in Microsoft Word.

• Launch Write-N-Cite within Microsoft Word.  Mac users do not have the Write-N-Cite button in Microsoft Word -- launch using

• Put the cursor in your Microsoft Word document where the reference should be inserted; click Cite next to the reference in the RefWorks window.  To modify your in-text citation or footnote see Using the Citation Editor.

• Save your Microsoft Word document.

Notes

Use the Microsoft Word footnote/endnote formatting feature, inserting references using the steps described above.

Using the One Line/Cite View

To cite a reference in your paper do the following:

• Click on the Cite link next to the appropriate reference.  A Citation Viewer window will appear containing the citation formatted like {{54 Johnson;}}.

• To cite a second reference in the same location just click on the cite link by any other reference.  (If you are using a Macintosh, you will need to click twice – the first click will activate the RefWorks program the second will perform the Cite function.  This is due to Macintosh functionality not the RefWorks program.)

• Once you have all of the references you need for a particular in-text citation, click on the Select Citation button.

• Perform a Copy command or simply drag and drop the citation into your word processor document.

• Go to your word processor, click on the document where you want the citation inserted and Paste the citation.

• Be sure to Clear the Citation Viewer window before creating your next citation.

Offline

If you create a paper offline, you must manually insert citations in the text where you want to cite the reference. To do so, use two open curly brackets "{{" followed by the Reference ID number followed by two closed curly brackets "}}". For multiple citations in the same location, separate the Ref ID number with semicolons: {{34;45;23}}.

Use the Citation List Export format when writing your paper offline. The format includes the RefID, Authors Primary, Title Primary, and Publication Year only. See Exporting a Database under Database Maintenance for more details.

See Generating your Bibliography for creating a bibliography from a list of references without a document.

Go to the final step, Generating your Bibliography