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RefWorks

What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that is freely available to staff and students at The University of Notre Dame Australia.


RefWorks helps you organise the references and files you collect while doing academic research. With the software add-in RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM), you can import references straight from your RefWorks account into your Microsoft Word document.

Login to RefWorks or create an account via the following link:

You may wish to view the Getting started playlist of videos on the Proquest YouTube channel:

RefWorks features

To export individual records from FiNDit to Refworks click the ellipsis (...) next to the item record and then select the Refworks icon.

item record, refworks highlighted

To export multiple records, save them to your favourites, select the relevant saved items and then use the ellipsis at the top of the saved records page to export as a batch.

To use RefWorks with Microsoft Word, you need to have the RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) installed.

RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) is an add-in tool for Word that enables you to easily insert in-text citations and bibliography (reference list) into your document.

Please note that the RefWorks Write-N-Cite (WnC) writing tool for Microsoft Word is no longer supported by RefWorks. Instructions on how to install RCM or migrate from Write-N-Cite to RCM are available in the links below.

This video from the University of Central Lancashire demonstrates how to install the RCM add-in and create citations within a Word document.