RefWorks Video Tutorials #8: Inserting Citations and Formatting Papers without Write-N-Cite

If you are at a public computer, and you are not allowed to install "Write-N-Cite", you can still use RefWorks to insert citations into your paper and format your paper.

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Requesting Books via Borrow Direct

If a book you are looking for is not available at Yale, you can request that book from any of the 6 other major research libraries in northeastern US, which participate in the "Borrow Direct" program. This tutorial shows how to request books via Borrow Direct.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #7: Write-N-Cite Tips and Tricks

This tutorial demonstrates how to modify an inserted citation to suppress authors, suppress publication year, and display page numbers, how to unformat a paper, and how to remove field codes for final submission.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #6: Inserting Citations and Formatting Papers with Write-N-Cite

In this tutorial, I show you how to use "Write-N-Cite" to insert citations into your paper and then format your paper with a particular style.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #5: Downloading and Installing Write-N-Cite

Today I am going to show you how to download and install the RefWorks plug-in for your word processor (known as "Write-N-Cite") in both Windows and Mac environments.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #4: Creating Independent Bibliographies

Sometimes you just want a bibliography that is not part of a paper. We can use RefWorks to create such an "independent" bibliography from a list of references.

On the other hand, if you do want a bibliography that is part of a paper, you should first insert citations into your paper, and then format your paper with your desired style. I will show you how to do that in the next a few tutorials.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #3: Adding References of Known Books or Book Chapters

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to quickly add the citation of a known book or a book chapter into RefWorks by searching Yale Library's Orbis Catalog directly from within RefWorks.

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RefWorks Video Tutorials #2: Adding References of Known Articles

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to quickly add the citation of a known article into RefWorks by searching PubMed directly from within RefWorks. This is the fastest way if you have a stack of known articles and need to quickly enter their citations into RefWorks.

However if you do not have known articles, you should search PubMed directly and use the technique I showed you last time to import the search results into RefWorks, because you can run much more powerful subject searches in PubMed's native interface.

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