Saturday, June 14, 2008

Scopus assignment

Wow. Talk about doing things the hard way. I probably shouldn’t even admit to making this mistake. The class assignment is to export our Scopus/Google Scholar references from RefWorks, into Word, using the APA format. I have all my references in a folder so I’m ready to export. I look over the exporting options offered by RefWorks and I don’t see how to use them, and use an APA format. I try a couple of the Exporting formats but nope, they definitely are not in APA style.

I open Word. I click on Write-N-Cite. So I start entering each reference individually using Write-N-Cite. I just had minor surgery on my hand so all this clicking is hurting me! I keep thinking there must be a better way. So I re-read export options in the Refworks help. I skim the tutorials RefWorks offers. Nope. I continue clicking, and I just know I can’t be doing this correctly. I’m so used to using Write-N-Cite I failed to notice the Bibliography options available in the full version of RefWorks until after I do a Google search and find a helpful illustration from Harvard. Thank you Google and Harvard.

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