Digital Resources for Research in American Legal History: Managing Your Information

RefWorks Basics

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager, provided free-of-charge to UNL students, staff, and faculty by the University Libraries. You can continue to access and use your account after graduation.

Use the information below to guide you in

• setting up an account and installing useful tools,
• importing and organizing citations and digital files, and
• using RefWorks with Microsoft Word to create a bibliography and in-text citations while writing.

Contact Leslie Delserone for additional assistance.

These two documents will help you to decipher abbreviations for government information sources and properly format the citations required in completing your assignments.