• maintain a large number of references for your dissertations or research projects
• format your paper and bibliography automatically in Word documents.
• maintain and organize your references with folders.
• search your references for specific text, keywords or authors.
• create and format references according to different bibliographic styles. (This facilitate your paper submission to various journals that require different citation formats.)
• import citations from various databases or library catalogues.

All students and staff of PolyU can set up a RefWorks account. Once an account is created, RefWorks will store all of your bibliographical data. Users away from campus can access RefWorks via remote login.

Apart from RefWorks, there are also other bibliographic managers, e.g. EndNote, Reference Manager and Pro-Cite.