See links below for various options for getting help and support with RefWorks.
The University of Huddersfield librarians are always happy to help!
ProQuest, the company that owns RefWorks, provides comprehensive guidance and technical support.
RefWorks is a cloud-based tool that gives you an online library of references you can access from any web browser. You can store and manage your references online, and generate automatic citations and references to copy and paste.
There is also a plugin for Word, RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM), that allows you to insert citations and references automatically as you write. This plugin is already available in the University's Office365 version of Word.
The video below was made by ProQuest, the owners of RefWorks, to demonstrate the key features:
The University of Huddersfield has a subscription to RefWorks. You do not automatically get an account; you must register first before you are able to use it.
To sign up:
You’re now all signed up and ready to start adding things to your RefWorks library!
You can save items from Library Search either individually, or in a group.
You can export to RefWorks from Google Scholar, and other academic databases. Most scholarly databases will have an option to "export", "download", "cite", "reference", or similar language. RefWorks also has a web clipper to enable you to save webpages and other online content. See video below for instructions.
Note: The University of Huddersfield’s referencing style is APA 7th. RefWorks has a few slightly different versions of the style available. We recommend you choose the following:
APA 7th - Sentence Casing, DOI: https://doi.org/
This style will automatically turn any titles into “sentence case” (only the first word of the title, and first word of a subtitle, starts with a capital letter). This will mean if there are proper nouns in the title then you will need to correct these back to having capital letters.
RefWorks has two options to generate citations and references to copy and paste into your assignment. There is also a built-in referencing tool for Word, called RefWorks Citation Manager.
RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) is a plugin for Microsoft Word. It allows you to quickly insert and edit citations and is available for Word 2016 and above. It is already installed on University computers and laptops. If you are using the University of Huddersfield version of Office365, downloaded from your UniMail, RCM may also be pre-installed.
Click the RCM tab on the ribbon, and it will open a pane on the right side of the document. It will prompt you to sign in with your RefWorks account, which syncs your library, and your references will appear. You can use the institutional login option here, or sign in with a username and password if you have created one.
For instructions on using RCM in Word, see this video guide.
For other common tasks within RefWorks, please see the links below.