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Managing References

After you have populated your folders with references, you may copy references to another folder and have them available in both places. You may also edit references to eliminate duplicates and typographical errors (diacritical marks, superscripts, subscripts, etc.), and correct misidentified records (e.g. an edited book entered as a book). Adding your own keywords, notes and reminders to references is a handy option in RefWorks.

The more error-free your RefWorks database, the more you can rely on it to create accurate references in your research papers. These small but necessary editing tasks are demonstrated in the screen-captured movies in this module.

PDF button links to PDF guide on this topic Copying References (0:57)

PDF button links to PDF guide on this topic Removing References (0:43)

PDF button links to PDF guide on this topic Deleting References (0:39)

Note on removing and deleting references
Removing a reference gets rid of it only from the folder in which removal was done. If the same reference was copied to another folder, it remains in that folder. If there is only one instance of a reference (and no copies of it in other folders), it is effectively deleted.
Deleting a reference scours through all your folders and gets rid of every occurence of that reference. Deleting should be used carefully.

Adding Your Comments to References (1:06)

PDF button links to PDF guide on this topic Global Editing (1:27)

Finding and Deleting Duplicates (1:11)

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