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A Guide to Good Referencing Skills

RefWorks Cancellation

RefWorks will no longer be available from Jan 1, 2025. 

Please ensure to export your references in RIS or BibTeX format latest by December 31 to prevent data loss. References can be imported to other reference management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote. 

Export References from RefWorks Import References in Other Tools

Generate Citations

With a citation generator, you enter your source bibliographic information in order to produce a citation in your selected format that you can copy and paste into your paper. There are lots of free citation generators on the web to choose from, here is a selected list of citation generators:

If you have many references to handle and hope to reuse them in your future work, we suggest you use reference management software instead.

Reference management tools

  • lets you create your own database of the references you collect while searching the literature
  • has a plug-in to automatically format the citations in Word, and produce a list of references at the end of the document formatted in the style of your choice (e.g. APA, IEEE, MLA). 
  • share your references with your teammates or collaborators

Free reference management tools include:

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