RefWorks Quick Start

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that helps you gather and organize citations and insert them in your papers.

Refworks login Quick answers here!

First Time Users: - Enter your College login and password. - Create a RefWorks login and password. Returning Users: - Enter your College login and password. - Enter your RefWorks login and password. If you have trouble with your RefWorks login, e-mail RS-RWsupport@refworks.cos.com or call 1(775)327-4105.

Help
General help and tutorials

• RefWorks Tutorial. It is a series of brief videos, each demonstrating and explaining an aspect of using RefWorks. There is also a print version.
• Contact RefWorks support at RS-RWsupport@refworks.cos.com or call 1(775)327-4105.
• For some hands-on experience, you can work through the RefWorks Fundamentals Workbook and Advanced Features Workbook.
• RefWorks also offers live training webinars. Here's the schedule and links to previously recorded webinars.

Importing citations
For most of our databases, you can bring your marked records or the items in your folder into RefWorks with a few clicks of the mouse.

• Instructions for using RefWorks with the Library Databases
• More information on importing citations into RefWorks.
• How to move your citations from EndNote into RefWorks.

Importing webpage citations directly from Internet Explorer or Firefox using RefGrabIt Bookmarklet

• First, log into your RefWorks account.
• Go to the Tools Menu and select RefGrab-It.
• Under, Installing RefGrab-It as a bookmarklet in your browser:, follow the instructions for your operating system and browser.

Note: If you are prompted for a Group Code, you are probably using the plug-in. Uninstall the RefGrab-it plug-in and install the RefGrab-it bookmarklet instead. As long as you are logged into RefWorks when you install it, it will be "hooked up" to your account.

Adding citations to your paper
You will need to download and configure Write-N-Cite (a plug-in) in order to insert footnotes and bibliography into your paper.

• Write-N-Cite for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Macintosh
  Write-N-Cite for Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Here is the procedure to configure the Write-N-Cite plug-in, for Windows:
  1. Go to the Windows Start Menu. Select Programs, then RefWorks.
  2. Select WNC Proxy Configuration Utility.  
  3. Copy and paste this proxy URL: http://library.esc.edu/login?url=https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/?WNC=true
• Here is the procedure to configure the Write-N-Cite plug-in, for Mac:
  1. After choosing the appropriate file (based on Mac version) and downloading file to computer, open the file called macwncinstall.dmg
  2. Drag the file called Write-N-Cite X.x (X.x is the version number) to the desired location, typically your Applications folder. (The same file can be dragged to the Program Dock for easy access as well).
  3. Double-click to open the file called Write-N-Cite X.X
  4. Select Preferences from the Write-N-Cite menu
  5. Select the Proxy option
  6. Copy and paste this proxy URL: http://library.esc.edu/login?url=https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/?WNC=true
  7. Restart Write-N-Cite for this proxy configuration to take effect.

If you have trouble downloading, installing, or configuring Write-N-Cite, contact RefWorks support at RS-RWsupport@refworks.cos.com or call 1(775)327-4105

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