Refworks: Organize Research and Create Bluebook Compliant Bibliography

CSU recently purchased Refworks, an online bibliographic management system that allows you to save the citations you find while researching. Citations can be directly imported from certain databases, such as Lexis Academic and Google Scholar. The system uses the citations you save to create bibliographies and footnotes, in Bluebook law review form.

Refworks is similar to Zotero a free Firefox add-on. Currently, Refworks appears to be more accurate when putting citations into Bluebook form. Both Zotero and Refworks can attach a copy of the article or case to the file.

The Law Library created a Quick Start Guide for Refworks. The Refworks Tutorials are also very good. For more information about Zotero, Refworks and other bibliographic management software, see the library’s Reference Management Software page. Also see Proper Citation Form for Jurisdiction with Cite Genie.

CORRECTION was made to this post – this post previously stated you could not attach documents using RefWorks, but you can.