Write-N-Cite is a word processor plugin for RefWorks, and it integrates the citing and formatting functions of RefWorks into the word processor. Write-N-Cite is a free download from the RefWorks site. So, here I am, in RefWorks. I can go to "Tools" and choose "Write-N-Cite". A pop-up box will show up, giving me some information about Write-N-Cite. On the right-hand side, you can see the download links. At the time of this video, Write-N-Cite comes in many different versions. Basically, you have to make a choice based on the type and version of your operating system and word processor application. As you can see, it'll try to put the best version for your system at the top. If you get a choice of 64 bit and 32 bit, you have to make sure that you choose the one that matches your word processor. For Microsoft Word, you can find out if you have a 32 bit or 64 bit version under "File", "Help". You can see it right here. Now, I'm going to click on the button to download... and then run through the installation process, which should be fairly straightforward. Once it's installed, next time I open up Word I should be able to see a RefWorks tab in the ribbon area. On the Mac, it should be a similar process - you download Write-N-Cite from the RefWorks site, and then run through the typical Mac installation process. After that, you should see a floating toolbar in Microsoft Word. Before you can use Write-N-Cite, you have to log into your RefWorks account through Write-N-Cite. So the first time you use Write-N-Cite, the only button that is not grayed out is the "Log In" button. So you can put in your account information, or you can use a one-time code to log in. You can get the code on the Write-N-Cite pop-up, on the RefWorks site. I still have that window open, so I'm just going to copy it, and paste it here. Now, I believe this code expires after a certain period of time, and every time you log in to the RefWorks cite, you get a different code - and that's for security purposes. But you should only need to do this once. Now that I'm logged in, you can see that all these buttons are now activated. Now, in most cases, the data you have access to here remains static and any changes you make to your RefWorks account will not be automatically pushed down here. You will have to "sync the database" after you've made any change to your RefWorks account. So make sure you click this button whenever you add, edit, or remove references, or otherwise make changes to your RefWorks account. Okay, now I can start writing my paper, and insert some citations. Okay, let's say this is my paper, and let's say this first sentence here is not an original thought. I got this idea from someone else, and I need to cite the original work right in here. So I'm going to make sure that I'm under the RefWorks tab in the ribbon, and I'm going to hit the first big button here the says "Insert Citation" and then "Insert New". So the tree structure on the left represents the folder structure in your RefWorks account--you can navigate to a folder and select a reference from there... or you can do a keyword search in the box here... Notice that you can sort the retrieved references by clicking on the column names, just like in any spreadsheet program. Let's say this is the reference I wish to insert into my document - I'm going to make sure that it is highlighted, and then click "OK". Now if you want to cite multiple references in the same place, you can just go ahead and cite in this same way. Write-N-Cite will automatically adjust the syntax to reflect the addition of new references in your document. Let me do just a few more... Now I have references in my paper, and you can see they are in my default style, which is indicated here, and yes, you can use this drop-down menu to change to a different style. I'm going to "Select Other Style". These are my available styles--yours may look different depending on your account settings. This is a combination of the RefWorks "popular styles", and your, or your institution's "favorite styles". If the style you're looking for is not here, don't panic. All you need to do is to go back your RefWorks site, choose "Bibliography", and then "Output Style Manager". So on the left are all the available styles from RefWorks, and on the right are the ones marked as "Favorite" in your account. To add a new one to favorites, browse to it or search for it on the left, and then use the green right arrow to move it to your favorites. Now go back to Word, and remember that I need to hit that "Sync My Database" button to bring that change down. Now if I go to "Select Other Style", you can see that my new style is here. I'm going to select this style, and you can see that my citation style has changed. I can change to another style... like so. By now you're probably wondering, where is my bibliography? Well by default, RefWorks does not generate a bibliography until you tell it where you want it generated. So I'm going to go to the end of my document, and make sure that this is where I want my bibliography to be generated, and then I'm going to click on "Bibliography Options" and then "Insert Bibliography", and here is my bibliography. Now if i switch to a different style, you can see that not only my in-line citation style has changed, but also my bibliography. Now, sometime's it's necessary to make slight changes to the citations entered into our papers, and Write-N-Cite provides some common editing functions. For example in here, we don't really want to repeat the author's name in the citation, because it is immediately in front of the citation. To fix that, I can just double-click on the citation, and I'll be in the insert/edit citation view. I want to make sure that the citation I want to edit is highlighted down here, and then check "Hide Author". You can see the changes in the preview window here. Obviously, you can also hide the year if necessary. If the style displays pages, you will be able to "Suppress" or "Override Pages" right here. For my style, these options are not available. But if I still want to display a page number, I can just put it in the "Suffix" box, like so. This is kind of a hack, but it is really useful if you want to append or prepend to your citations. Click "OK", and you can see that the changes are made to my document. One thing we should understand is that whenever Write-N-Cite enters a citation in your document, it enters some hidden code to help it locate a reference in its database. This code is known as "Field Code". So no matter what style your citations appear to be, the underlying field code is the same. You might have noticed that when you click on an inserted citation or the generated bibliography, the text has gray background, indicating that there is hidden code behind the text here that ReWorks can use to format your paper. However, some publishers or institutions may require that you submit your manuscript without field codes in them. In that case, we can remove the field codes using Write-N-Cite. Now I have to say that this is a dangerous action. When you remove all the field codes, your paper becomes a pure Word document, and Write-N-Cite will no longer be able to recognize and format citations in them. So only do this when you're sure that your manuscript is final, and always, always make a copy of the original with all the field codes in them. That's what this warning is all about. If you choose to go ahead and remove the field codes, click "OK", and now you can see that this no longer has a gray background and they are just like any other text in Word. Now again, it is a good idea to save this particular version under a different file name. Now let's say I want to make more changes to the citations in this paper later. The correct way to do this is to go to my original document with field codes with them, and make my changes there. And then I can reformat the paper, and remove the field codes again as necessary. So today we learned how to download, install, and use Write-N-Cite to connect to your RefWorks account, and insert, format, and edit citations in a compatible word processor such as Microsoft Word. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.