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Citation Management Tools: RefWorks

This guide will help you use Zotero to manage your references and create bibliographies

What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is a web-based reference management tool that allows you to manage your references when writing or collaborating with other researchers. You can use RefWorks to organize, store and share your references, and to instantly create citations and bibliographies. To set up an account, use your Macalester email address. Click on Create Account at the bottom of the Login Page.

 

What Can RefWorks Do For You?

RefWorks simplifies the process of research, collaboration, data organization, and writing by providing an easy-to-use tool for citation, bibliography, and reference management. Advantages of using RefWorks:

  • It enables you to keep your research more organized by storing it in one place.
  • It allows you to organize your references into subject folders and/or tags.
  • It provides links to articles that are full-text in research databases to which Macalester subscribes, or to PDFs that have been uploaded into RefWorks (i.e., from ILL).
  • It allows you to create bibliographies/reference lists in a variety of citation styles (e.g., APA, Chicago, MLA, and many more).
  • Write-n-Cite, an add-on for Microsoft Word, enables you to run a simplified version of RefWorks inside of Word and Google Docs. 

NOTE:  Although RefWorks is a great program, it is not perfect. Check the created bibliography/reference list for any errors. You may need to make some (usually minor) edits.


Collaborate with others when working on a research project
 
Organize, read, annotate and highlight full-text documents individually or share privately with members of your institution or with any RefWorks user in a collaborative environment. 

Training Resources

For a more comprehensive and up to date information, please refer to ProQuest's RefWorks guide.