Follow these instructions to create your bibliography in the correct format and paste it into your research assignment.

Step 1.

Make sure that all of the sources you used in the body of your paper are already added to RefWorks.

RefWorks calls the page(s) at the end of your paper that list your sources a Bibliography.

That may or may not be a word that your professors will use.

When you see Bibliography in RefWorks, you can translate it to Works Cited if you are using MLA style. Or you can translate it to References if you are using

APA or Chicago style.

Bibliography, Works Cited, and References all mean the same thing. They are your list of complete citations for all of the sources you use in the body of your research assignment.

This list appears at the end of your research paper.

Select "Create Bibliography" where the citation marks " are located at the top of the screen.

Sample list of imported citations from databases into RefWorks. At the top of the page, the Create Bibliography option is circled in red to indicate that it must be pressed in order to proceed to the next step in creating a bibliography.

Step 2.

Select Create bibliography from the dropdown menu.

In RefWorks, click the "Create bibliography" icon at the top of the page. A dropdown menu will display with "Create Bibliography." In this screenshot, it is circled in red indicating to select that option to proceed to the next step.

Step 3.

There are MANY citation formats to choose from in RefWorks! For this step-by-step example, let's choose MLA 8th edition. From the dropdown menu, select MLA 8th edition. Then click on the "Copy to Clipboard" button to display the imported citations in RefWorks to a pre-formatted MLA 8th edition Works Cited page.

Step 4.

Click the "Copy to Clipboard" button.

Step 5.

Paste to a Word or Google document. This step will work with any version of Microsoft Word that you are using, including the one provided with Palomar's free access to Office 365.

The citations are double-spaced with the hanging indent that are rules of MLA 8th edition! Refworks automatically put my complete list of citations in alphabetical order, which is a rule in my selected citation style: MLA 8th edition. See next step for some more notes.

A Word Document with the pasted RefWorks citation imports that came from RefWorks.

Step 6.