transferring bibliographic information into RefWorks citation manager

james mahan
james mahan Member Posts: 1
edited November 20 in English Forum

Hello, not sure if this will be of any help, but I found a way to export bibliographic info into RefWorks from Logos if anyone is using it as a citation manager for their college papers. Unfortunately I could not figure out how to do so directly, (if anyone knows please help!) so this is a bit of a workaround using another reference management software called Zotero. By copying the ISBN of the logos book from the title page, I then clicked on the magic wand in Zotero which allows one to add references via ISBN. Paste the ISBN into Zotero and it should populate with the reference. Right click on the reference and choose export and find the format "RefWorks Tagged". It will then save as a file to your computer. Now go to RefWorks and click Add+ on the top of the references page. Use the "Import references" and "find a file from your computer". Do not use the "upload document" function as it will not work properly. When you open the file, it will popup and tell you that you are using the RefWorks Tagged format and it will ask if you want to continue. Click yes. Now click on "last imported" in RefWorks and your bibliographic info should be there. You can now use RCM in Word and it will autofill your footnotes and bibliography as normal. Hope this helps someone.

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  • Alan saunders
    Alan saunders Member Posts: 59 ✭✭

    James, the method I used for getting reference into Zotero was to export bibliography items in RIS format. They can be copied directly into Zotero (and possibly RefWorrks???)

    • From the tab with your resource select the kebab menu on top right
    • select Information in the dropdown.  
    • In the Citation section, select RIS style at the right.
    • For some resurces this will show both a resource citation (whole book) and article citation (for a particular article or chapter in the book with the author of the article).
    • Select Copy at the bottom of the citation
    • In Zotero use File\”Import from Clipboard”.   I don’t know RefWorks, I assume there is a similar option

    This process saves going to another site to get ISBN and works even for references that are too old to have a ISBN

    You can do the same process from the Info tab in Library within Logos.

    Selecting RIS as I have suggested above does not affect the citation style when you copy and paste from a resource - that is a separate setting 

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