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Add Citations Electronically
RefWorks Classic Import Help
The following list of database vendors include instructions for moving citations into RefWorks. If no filter exists for a particular vendor, we recommend you look for alternative export or save options. Click here and then click on suggestions on alternate saving methods.
Note: Citation information for webpages on the free web (e.g., Internet Movie Database, government webpages) can be moved into RefWorks using the RefGrab-It tool. See Instructions for installing and using RefGrab-It.
| PUBLISHER/VENDOR | Databases Covered.
|
Instructions for moving citations into RefWorks | ACM Digital Library | ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
|---|---|---|
| ACS Journals | American Chemical Society journals | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| AIP Journals | American Institute of Physics journals | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Articles Search | Articles Tab | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| ARTstor | ARTstor | Moving Citations into RefWorks | Bibliography of Asian Studies | Bibliography of Asian Studies | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | EconLit, Environmental Science, MLA, PAIS, Sociological Abstracts, and more | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Chadwyck Healey | Film Index International, International Index to Performing Arts, MLA, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| China Academic Journals | China Academic Journals | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| CQ Researcher - Congressional Quarterly | CQ Researcher | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Database Library | QuickSearch, Xerxes | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| EBSCOhost | Academic Search, Agricola, CINAHL Plus, ERIC, Historical Abstracts, PsycINFO, Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Engineering Village | Compendex (Engineering Index), INSPEC, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| FirstSearch/WorldCat | Chicano Database, History of Science, Technology & Medicine, WorldCat, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Generic Databases | Access, Paradox, Excel, Dbase | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Hapi Online | Hapi: Database of Latin American Journal Articles | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| IEEE | IEEE Explorer | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| IngentaConnect | More than 800 of our electronic journal subscriptions at UW - Madison Libraries are in Ingenta | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| ISI Web | Biological Abstracts, CAB, FSTA, Web of Knowledge, Web of Science, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| JSTOR | Collections in Arts & Sciences I; Arts & Sciences
II; Business; Ecology & Botany; General Science; Language & Literature;
Music. and more. |
Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Lexis Nexis Academic | Lexis Nexis Academic | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| MadCat - Endeavor Voyager | MadCat (UW-Madison Libraries Catalog), ArCat (Historical Society Archives), and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Minds@UW (DSpace) | Minds@UW (University of Wisconsin digital repository) | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| OvidSP | Biotechnology Abstracts, HAPI:Health and Psychosocial Instruments, International Pharmaceuticals Abstracts | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Project Muse | Electronic Journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies,and economics. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| ProQuest Direct Web | ABI Inform Global, Ethnic News Watch, Proquest Research Library, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| PubMed | PubMed, and
more. NIH researchers: see instructions for using RefWorks to manage NIHMSIDs & PMCIDs. |
Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| QuickSearch (UW-Madison) | Articles Tab, Database Library, Metalib, QuickSearch, Xerxes | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Reaxys | formerly Beilstein/Gmelin | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| RSS Feeds | RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed Readers. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Science Direct | 115 high use Elsevier journals | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| SciFinder Scholar | Chemical Abstracts, Substance and Reaction Databases, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| SilverPlatter | See WebSPIRS directions | |
| Social Science Research NetWork(SSRN) | Moving Citations into RefWorks | |
| UCLA Latin American Center | HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) | See ISI Web directions | |
| Websites | Use RefGrab-It to import webpages on the free web (e.g., Internet Movie Database, government webpages) | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| WilsonWeb | Applied Science & Technology, Art Abstracts, Business Fulltext, Humanities Fulltext, Reader's Guide, Social Sciences, and more. | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| Word Processor Documents | Word, Wordperfect, and more | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
| WorldCat | See FirstSearch directions. | |
| WorldCat.org | Moving Citations into RefWorks |
Add Citations Manually
- Click New Reference at the top of the page.
(Optional) Select desired citation style from View fields used by drop down menu. - Select desired folder from the Add to Folder drop down menu
- Select appropriate reference type from the Ref Type drop down menu.
- Enter the information from your reference in the appropriate fields.
- Click Save Reference.
Import EndNote Citations into RefWorks
Note: RefWorks has a feature that will allow you to upload your EndNote versions 8 + library directly into RefWorks. All other versions of EndNote will require you to export the records from EndNote and import them into RefWorks (see instructions at the end of this section).
EndNote 8 or newer
- Click References and Import at the top of the screen.
- Select Endnote version 8.x library from the Import Filter/Data Source drop-down menu.
- Click From EndNote Database and Browse for the library file.
Note: Currently there is a 25 MB import limit on the size your EndNote library.
Optional: Select a folder into which your EndNote library will be imported. - Click Import.
Your records should automatically appear in the Last Imported folder or folder selected.
- IN Endnote version 7 or older, click Edit and select Output Styles.
- Select RefMan(RIS) Export.
If you do not see this style, click on Open Style Manager. Click in the box to the left of this style. Close the Style Manager window and repeat step 1 above. - Click References and Show All to export the entire library.
OR
Select specific references and click on Reference and Show Selected. - Click File and Export.
- Type your disk drive, the filename in the File Name box.
- Select Text from the Save As type dropdown menu.
- Click on Save.
In EndNote version 7 or older
In RefWorks
- Login to your RefWorks database if you have not already done so.
- Click References and Import at the top of the screen.
- Select RIS Format from the Import Filter/Data Source drop-down menu.
- Select Endnote Windows or Endnote Macintosh from the Database drop-down menu.
- Click Browse to select the text file name of your saved records.
Optional: Select a folder into which your EndNote library will be imported. - Click Import.
Your citation(s) will automatically be imported into the Last Imported Folder.
You may view the records or move them to the folder of your choice.