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  1. allow sorting of references

    When viewing references, allow sorting options by date, author(s), title, etc.

    19 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Organizing References  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminRefworks Admin (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    References may be sorted in Table View (and all other views) by Date added, Date modified, Date published, Title, Author or RefID. Ordering may be in descending or ascending order. Page display limit is 2000, but now all references are sorted.

  2. Change Write-n-Cite 4.5 so that multiple authors with the same surname are distinguished by a suffix (a,b etc) on the date.

    WnC 4.5 deals with authors that have the same surname differently to WnC 4.4. Our style is based on a version of Harvard and in WnC 4.4 in text citations for authors with the same surname are given the suffix of a,b etc onto the date e.g: (Smith, 2008a), (Smith, 2008b) to distinguish them. In the new version (4.5) if these authors have different initials, then that is added into the citation e.g: (A. Smith, 2008), (B. Smith, 2008).

    If the citations in question have different years - then initials are added to that as well e.g: (A. Smith, 2008),…

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    9 comments  ·  Organizing References  ·  Admin →

  3. Citations need to be black

    when copy the references from the bibliography, the references are "dark grey" instead of black. It makes it troublesome to go through all the references by hand, and highlight all the references and change it to black. This is because in some formats, it includes the URL, which should be in "blue". Therefore, it is quite annoying to do so, and quite honestly, defeats the purpose of having a reference manager.

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  4. Sort Folders Automatically by Alphabet

    Please add a function/button that automatically and alphabetically sorts the folders. I understand that we can manually organize our folders, but with large libraries, an auto-sort feature will be a helpful and efficient feature.

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    7 comments  ·  Organizing References  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminShalhevet Bar-Asher (VP, Research Information Management, Ex Libris) responded

    I am happy to update that as of the June release, folders can be sorted alphabetically, in addition to customer sorting. Default sorting for new users and new projects will be alphabetical. Existing projects will maintain their custom sorting, and users can toggle to alphabetical sorting with the new sort button.

  5. It would be helpful if the list of folders included an indication of the number of items in each folder. Thank you!

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  6. Show reference numbers

    In old RefWorks references were numbered. It is still necessary.

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    2 comments  ·  Organizing References  ·  Admin →

  7. Show all fields included in a resource type on the edit screen

    Currently RefWorks only shows certain fields when you edit references, it would be better if it showed all fields for that type of resource that are defined in the style

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    Completed  ·  2 comments  ·  Organizing References  ·  Admin →

  8. Systematic Review Views

    Like the "Normal" or "Citation" view of the data, provide a Systematic Review view that just shows select fields, like Author and Abstract.

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