RefWorks

Attention: Legacy RefWorks; ProQuest RefWorks; RefWorks Citation Manager and Write-n-Cite will be unavailable starting at 11pm on Friday, December 20 until 9am on Saturday, December 21.  

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, organize, store and share information and to generate citations and bibliographies.

NEW - As of February 2019 ProQuest Refworks users may need an activation code at times. The link to the activation code is below.

Activation Code

ProQuest RefWorks introduces a refined user experience to reference management software for researchers so they can manage references, create papers even faster and collaborate easily with others. ProQuest RefWorks' platform is available for all U of A students and faculty. The Legacy RefWorks platform is unaffected: new accounts may be created and existing RefWorks accounts remain unchanged. ProQuest RefWorks continues to be updated.

To create a ProQuest RefWorks account using your @ualberta.ca email / login: https://refworks.proquest.com/signup/email/

To learn more about features of ProQuest RefWorks, please see http://support.proquest.com/refworks3/apex/homepage?id=kA140000000CmvECAS&l=en_US

Choose from the following options for using ProQuest RefWorks:

1. Are you an existing RefWorks user? This may be the case if you've created an RefWorks account prior to June 30, 2016. Old version of RefWorks is now referred to as Legacy RefWorks.
   • If yes, and you are using Write and Cite with MS Word to draft your paper/dissertation/thesis project, we recommend that you continue to use Legacy RefWorks until you are finished. 
   • If no, then create a new account using your @ualberta.ca email at https://refworks.proquest.com/. You can maintain both Legacy and ProQuest RefWorks accounts in parallel. Legacy RefWorks will be available until sometime in 2018. 
   • You can easily start moving references from Legacy RefWorks to new using the “Import References” function.
2. Are you new to RefWorks? 
   • Then create a new account using your @ualberta.ca email to get started: https://refworks.proquest.com/

For Legacy RefWorks users who had accounts BEFORE June 18, 2015:

• If you are trying to access Write-N-Cite v. 3 off-campus and require the Group Code, please contact the library.
• Write-N-Cite 4 / ProQuest for Word update is needed
• Adjustments to Microsoft Word are required to continue working on Word documents started before June 18, 2015. Use the following tip sheets to make the adjustments:

Users will continue to have access to their ProQuest Refworks and Legacy Refworks accounts if their affiliation or role at the University of Alberta changes (e.g., graduation or retirement), as long as the university continues to maintain their subscription to the program.