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What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is an online citation manager that allows you to collect, manage, and incorporate citations in your writing.

More details about RefWorks can be found in the link below.

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RefWorks is a reference management service that supports the needs of students, faculty and researchers. With a refined user experience, full-text management, collaboration and other features you’d expect from a reference management service, RefWorks enables students and faculty to have a more efficient and reliable process for producing the best research papers.

What is RefWorks?

User Guides

This six page, pdf user guide can be downloaded and provides step by step instructions on RefWorks.

Select the link below called RefWorks User Guide.

RefWorks User Guide

RefWorks uses your Institutional credentials (AUS username and password). Currently RefWorks doesn't allow institutional credentials to be used in Google Docs and Microsoft Word Plugin thus an "alternative password" must be created for such purposes.

Please see the PDF below for instructions on creating an "alternative password".

Adding an alternative password to RefWorks account

Using RefWorks

For more detailed information about using RefWorks to manage your citations and write and edit your paper, review the following link below called Using RefWorks.

Learn more about:

Getting Started
Importing and managing your references
Editing and writing your paper
Advanced features of RefWorks

Using RefWorks