Citation Management

RefWorks is an online, web-based "citation manager" that allows you to:

• Store and organize your research references, and
• Format in-text citations and automatically create reference lists for your papers.

Upstate's library has purchased in institutional RefWorks license. It is freely available to all Upstate faculty, staff, and students.

Create a RefWorks account

• Click on "Create account" at the bottom of the RefWorks login page.
• Be sure to create your account using your Upstate email account (not a Gmail or other personal email account).
• You will receive an email with a link to activate and finish creating your account.

RefWorks documentation:

• Managing References in Refworks (from Ex Libris/Proquest)
• RefWorks YouTube video tutorials
• RefWorks User Guide (from Ex Libris/Proquest)

To sign into your RefWorks account:

• Go to https://refworks.proquest.com

If you are having difficulty downloading Add-ins like Refworks Citation Manager on a personal computer, try the following to enable this add-on:

For Macs:

1. Open MS Word from Office 365. At the top is an option to log out of Office 365.
2. You will now be able to download Refworks Citation Manager (RCM) and insert your citations.

For PCs:

1.  Open Word in Office 365
2.  Click on FILE
3.  Scroll down to ACCOUNT
4.  At the next screen, Under USER INFORMATION, "sign out" of Office 365

This will not affect your documents in any way.  After the initial setup, just remember, if you open Word within Office 365, you may need to "sign out" in order for the app to work.

Yes, but you'll have to update your RefWorks account before graduating. You'll need to do the following:

• change your role to "Alumni"
• replace your upstate.edu email with a personal email address

For more information, visit https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/RefWorks/Knowledge_Articles/Alumni