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  1. Automatically switch from Title to Short Title in repeated references

    In Chicago Notes & Bibliography style, repeated references are supposed to display a shortened title.

    For example, the following book:

    Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 7.

    Subsequent citations after the first should appear as:

    Zelizer, Remembering to Forget 7.

    Please add an option to replace the Title field with the Short Title field in repeated references. (Or better yet, use AI to automate shortening titles!)

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Already Supported  ·  AdminRefworks Admin (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Users may set repeated references preferences in Citation Style Editor. More information can be found here: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/RefWorks/Product_Documentation/RefWorks_User_Guide/0900_Managing_Citation_Styles#Editing_Custom_and_Out_of_the_Box_Styles

    For additional assistance, please contact Tech Support: https://support.proquest.com/s/refworks

  2. I would love for APA 7th edition to be available now to me, that would help so much with classes?

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  3. Ease of access to PDF attachments.

    I can only access the PDF attachments by going to Full View and searching through all the information that is shown. It would be great if the system would show that the PDF document is attached and have a link to open it on the side bar in Normal View. Or have the PDF automatically open when the title is double clicked.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  4. Create reports based on common wording in the "notes" field

    Some of the references I have collected are available only in a certain University. During the course of collecting the data, I mentioned in the "notes" field that these specific articles are available in that University. Now I want to go there and make a report/list of all the references of which I mentioned in the notes they are available there. How do I do it? Tag it? Can I create a report based on tagging?
    Might it be able to learn from the common wording I used in the notes field: "Available/accessible on XXX".

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  5. When clicking on a citation, I'd like to be able to view which other RefWorks folders a citation has been added to.

    It is possible to add single citations to multiple folders. I would like to click on a citation, and see which folders it has been added to.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  6. Google Docs Tool -- Add the ability to include page numbers as part of the in-text citation

    In APA if you are using a direct quote one should include the page number(s) as part of the in-text citation. In the Google docs tool, there is a space for adding page numbers for that very reason, but it's grayed out and unusable.

    Our students primarily use Google docs for their writing so this would be super helpful.

    14 votes
    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Already Supported  ·  AdminShalhevet Bar-Asher (VP, Research Information Management, Ex Libris) responded

    APA 7th in-text citations do not include page numbers, unless there is a direct quote. Therefore the pages option is grayed out when selecting APA 7th. It is available for styles that include page numbers, such as MLA 7th Edition. There are two workarounds that allow editing page numbers when the style does not require them:
    - Create a custom style with pages included and share it as an institutional style. For details refer to this section of the RefWorks Customer Knowledge Center: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/RefWorks/Product_Documentation/RefWorks_User_Guide/0900_Managing_Citation_Styles#Editing_Non-CSL_Citation_Styles. Note that this style would then apply to all in-text citations in the document, whether they are direct quote or not.
    - Use the required APA 7th style and add page numbers manually for direct quotes only.

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