RefWorks Import Directions

Google Scholar

First you will need to set up RefWorks feature in Google Scholar

1. From the Google Scholar search page, click on the Scholars Preferences link.
2. Scroll down to the Bibliography Manager section.
3. Select Show Links to Import into and select RefWorks from the drop down box.
4. Click Save Preferences.

To export citations to RefWorks do the following.

1. Open your RefWorks account.
2. Conduct your search in Google Scholar in another window of the same browser as your RefWorks account.
3. Select a citation and click on the Import into RefWorks link under citation.
4. The citation will then appear in the Edit view of a reference in RefWorks. You may edit the record if you wish. 
5. At the In Folder(s) field(s), send it to one of your folders in RefWorks.
6. Click on Save Reference.  
7. Go to the next citation in your search (Google Scholar allows saving only one citation at a time).

For further information about RefWorks contact:

Martha Eberhart - Reference Librarian
Lib 264
726-8733    meberhar@d.umn.edu

Page Updated:  February 2011