Skip to Main Content

RefWorks

RCM integrates RefWorks citations into Word or Google Docs to generate in-text citations.

RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) is an add-in for Microsoft Word or Google Docs that enables you to run a simplified version of RefWorks inside the application. View the video for a quick overview and get started. 

 

RCM is available through the Microsoft Office Store or Google Store and can be installed directly from Microsoft Word. By default, Office automatically updates RCM whenever a new version becomes available.

To find the right add-in for your operating system and writing tool, see Finding the Right Writing Tool Add-ons.

Word app RCM
Google Docs      RefWorks for Google Docs

Check out the RefWorks User Manual for more information. 

RCM Integrations to Enhance Research

Unpaywall (Open Source)

Users at your institution can access full text available via Unpaywall.

What articles can Unpaywall find?    Unpaywall finds the kind of articles you'd see in peer-reviewed scholarly journals like Science or PLOS One, plus pre-publication versions of similar work from preprint repositories like arXiv. Specifically, it looks for articles with a kind of identifier called a DOI. Although the best-known type of paywall is the one in front of a newspaper or magazine article you want to read, Unpaywall doesn't help with sites like nytimes.com or washingtonpost.com.

How do you find all these full-text articles?  We harvest content directly from over 50,000 journals and open-access repositories from all over the world. We also use great open data from PubMed Centralthe DOAJCrossref (particularly their license info), and DataCite.

Is Unpaywall legal?   Yes! We harvest content from legal sources, including repositories run by universities, governments, and scholarly societies, as well as open content hosted by publishers themselves. If you ever encounter content indexed by Unpaywall that is posted in violation of copyright, let us know and we'll remove it immediately.

Paperpal Preflight Pre-submission Check

  • Users access Preflight Pre-submission Check in RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) for Word and Google Docs. With this new integration, Paperpal will enhance the process by providing language and technical compliance checks, ensuring manuscripts are submission-ready.
  • Preflight Pre-submission Check performs a comprehensive scan of manuscripts for technical compliance and language quality, ensuring appropriate grammar, writing mechanics, readability, and academic vocabulary. It will also review technical aspects related to references, disclosures, limits, figures, tables, etc. 
  • Post assessment, a free submission readiness report will be generated, highlighting areas of compliance and areas needing improvement.
  • As of 1/25/25, doc, docx, and PDF file formats are supported.