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(‘LEGACY’ REFWORKS VERSION) Instructions to get started for EUR students and researchers John Steenwinkel UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EUR EUR/UB/JSt2017v1 Contents Introduction ...........................................................................................................................4 PART 1: Creating the Account ................................................................................................6 PART 2: Setting the Account Preferences ...............................................................................8 Folders ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Create a folder ................................................................................................................................... 8 Last Imported folder .......................................................................................................................... 8 Not in Folder ...................................................................................................................................... 9 References tab ................................................................................................................................... 9 Preferences .................................................................................................................................................. 9 Customize your RefWorks settings .................................................................................................... 9 Set the Output Style for the Bibliography ....................................................................................... 11 PART 3: Reference Types...................................................................................................... 13 PART 4: Importing References .............................................................................................. 14 sEURch–EUR Library................................................................................................................................... 14 Google Books ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Google Scholar ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Scopus ........................................................................................................................................................ 24 Web of Science .......................................................................................................................................... 26 Jstor ............................................................................................................................................................ 27 Other Databases ........................................................................................................................................ 28 Export .............................................................................................................................................. 28 Import .............................................................................................................................................. 28 PART 5: Checking Imported References ............................................................................... 30 PART 6: Entering References Manually ................................................................................ 33 Entering Author’s Names ........................................................................................................................... 34 Arabic names ................................................................................................................................... 35 Spanish names ................................................................................................................................. 35 Entering Reference Titles ........................................................................................................................... 35 Year of Publication ..................................................................................................................................... 35 PART 7: Creating a Bibliography ........................................................................................... 36 PART 8: Important Information ............................................................................................ 37 Referencing Style at ISS ............................................................................................................................. 37 Accessing your ISS RefWorks account ....................................................................................................... 37 2 RefWorks after your study at the ISS ......................................................................................................... 37 Creating the RefWorks alumni account & transferring the contents from the student account ... 38 Temporary Use of Refworks for 30 days ......................................................................................... 39 Annex ................................................................................................................................... 41 Open Office or Office 365 in the cloud ...................................................................................................... 41 Switches ..................................................................................................................................................... 42 3 Introduction RefWorks (2.0 or Legacy), the standard bibliographical software at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), enables you to build up your collection of references on a range of academic subjects, organize them in folders, consult them and use them in your academic writings for citations. A number of database publishers have co-operated with the makers of RefWorks to let you export references from their databases straight into your RefWorks account. For other databases, you import titles into RefWorks via a standardized text file, a RIS text file. It also is possible to create individual references in your RefWorks account, by copying and pasting or by entering the required publication information manually. RefWorks enables researchers to use their references in a manuscript with the help of a complementary programme, Write-N-Cite. This MS Word “add in”, which can be downloaded from the RefWorks Tools menu, creates the ‘in-text citations’ and generates a list of the references cited in the manuscript, correctly formatted in the chosen output style. At ISS we use the Harvard–ISS Standard output style which is of course available in RefWorks at EUR. When RefWorks is correctly used, the result is consistent referencing and correctly formatted in-text citations and list of references. Most of us are not able to reach the same level of consistency when entering references manually in a manuscript. A typical example of the use of in-text citations, formatted according to the Harvard-ISS Standard style could be: [...] In a number of countries information literacy is hampered by the limited availability of computers. Also in the training curriculum for librarians in some countries, information literacy is often not yet well developed (Baro 2011). In other countries good progress is made and information literacy is integrated in the overall curriculum. For South Africa, better material conditions can be found than in a number of other African countries (Hart 2006, Oberprieler et al. 2005). [...] The in-text citations, marked here in grey, are within parentheses and have the authors’ surname followed by the year of publication, according to the Harvard-ISS Standard style . The automatically generated bibliography at the end of the manuscript for the example above would look like this: List of References Baro, E.E. (2011) 'A Survey of Information Literacy Education in Library Schools in Africa', Library review: a magazine on libraries and literature 60(3 (22 03)): 202-218. (continued on the next page) Hart, G. (2006) 'The Information Literacy Education Readiness of Public Libraries in Mpumalanga Province (South Africa)', Libri: international library review and IFLA communication 56(1): 48-62. 4 Oberprieler, G., K. Masters and T. Gibbs (2005) 'Information Technology and Information Literacy for First Year Health Sciences Students in South Africa: Matching Early and Professional Needs', Medical teacher: the journal for educators in the health sciences 27(7): 595-598. RefWorks takes care of the formatting (e.g., publication year within parentheses, book and journal titles in italics, etc.) and sorting the list alphabetically by author’s surname. RefWorks is therefore a great aid to produce correct and complete referencing (which avoids possible accusations of plagiarism). You still need to understand and recognize the different ‘Ref Types’ (books, chapters, journal articles, reports, edited book, etc.) and verify that references have been correctly imported from bibliographical databases. In the final analysis, the quality of a research paper, article or dissertation depends on your control and understanding of referencing, not solely on the tool being used. We strongly recommend that you also consult the latest ISS Referencing Guide (from http://www.iss.nl/library/library_services/about_referencing/