RefWorks

With RefWorks, you can easily generate bibliographies or footnotes for your paper. RefWorks is a web-based citation management service that allows users to create a personal database of resources and keep those resources well organized.  RefWorks is available to all Wright State University faculty, staff, and students.

Contact your subject librarian for personalized help or to arrange instruction for a class.

To begin using RefWorks on a WSU networked computer:

1. Go to: http://www.refworks.com
2. Click on User Login
3. Click on “sign up for an individual account”
4. Make up a username and password; fill in requested information
5. Be sure to use your Wright State University email address
6. Once your information is submitted, you will have immediate access to RefWorks
7. You will receive an email confirmation of your username and password

To begin using RefWorks from a non-WSU networked computer (home, off-campus office, any internet connection, anywhere):

You may need the group code. Click here from an off-campus computer to receive the code.

Importing references into RefWorks

RefWorks Tutorial

RefWorks Quick Start Guide

RefWorks Help

Write-n-Cite

Write-n-Cite is a software program that you use in conjunction with Microsoft Word to incorporate citations from your RefWorks database. As you are writing your paper, Write-n-Cite allows you to choose the correct citations from the RefWorks database you created and place them in the proper place in your paper. It can then format a bibliography of those citations for you.

Installing Write-n-Cite on your computer

Download instructions

• If you use several computers, you will need to install it on each one.


• If you are using a campus computer you will need to install Write-n-Cite each time you log in.


• On a PC: Once installed, when you are in MS Word, RefWorks Write-n-Cite will appear in the Tools menu and as a toolbar option.


• On a Mac: Once installed, a shortcut to RefWorks Write-n-Cite will appear on the Desktop.


• To use Write-n-Cite, open it from MS Word or the Desktop. You will be prompted for your RefWorks login. You can choose to have the RefWorks Write-n-Cite window always on top.