PCOM6000 Survey in Professional Writing: RefWorks

Library databases allow you to export your citations to RefWorks. While each database vendor is different, all provide an option to identify or mark items that are of interest, and then export your citations to RefWorks.

You can create folders in RefWorks. This means you can create different folders for different projects, or different folders for varied aspects of a particular project. The same item can exist simultaneously in more than one folder.

If you think that you've lost a reference, check the folder called, References not in a folder. This is where references go if they have been imported but not put into a folder.

By phone

Call 973-720-2116

The Reference Desk is staffed until 10PM Sunday-Friday and until 5:00pm on Saturday.

By e-mail

Send your question to the Reference Desk via email - refdesk@wpunj.edu   Allow 24 hours for a response. 

Schedule a Research Appointment

Contact the library for an appointment with a Reference Librarian:  Schedule Research Help

RefWorks is a citation manager that can help you organize and keep track of the sources you are using for your research. References can be exported directly from Library databases, entered manually in RefWorks or imported from the Library's online catalog. RefWorks can convert your citations into a properly formatted bibliography. A suite of tutorials can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProQuestRefWorks  

This handy Quick Start Guide might also answer some of your questions:

https://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks

To use RefWorks you must create an account. When you create an account:

• You need to create a login name and password that you will remember. It does not need to be the same as your WPUNJ username and password.
• You can use any email address. The email address will enable RefWorks to help you if you forget your login name or password.

When you access RefWorks from off-campus you will first need to log-in as a WPUNJ user, then at the RefWorks screen you will need to use your RefWorks login.

When ready to create your list of References:

• Select Bibliography.
• Select your (APA--7th ed.).Output Style
• Change the File Type to Create to RTF (Rich Text Format--readable by all word processing programs).
• Select the appropriate folder for your list of references.
• Click on Create Bibliography.

Watch for the message to clear Pop-up blockers. You may need to start over if you haven't already clear the Pop-up blockers.