We have heard from a couple of patrons that the new Write N Cite III for RefWorks does not work with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. I have written to RefWorks and confirmed that this is indeed the case. I asked specifically about any workarounds. Here is the reply I received from RefWorks:
"Unfortunately there is currently not a work around for users with Word 2008. We will be releasing a beta for this in the future ... We have not found that WNC III or WNC II is compatible with this Word Version. The only thing I could suggest at this point is to create the bibliography from within RefWorks, and use the One Line Cite to insert in text citations."
One Line Cite is an option in the Switch To menu, which is to the immediate right of the folder name. Next, click on "cite" to the immediate left of the citation. This will open up a separate pop-up window that includes the RefWorks tag. One can copy this entire tag (including the squiggly brackets) and paste it into the MS Word document. Then, in order to format the citations in the MS Word document, one has to do it from the Bibliography option in the main RefWorks toolbar. Browse for the file and use the Format Paper and Bibliography option to create a new formated version of the document. This sounds like it should work, but I haven't been able to test it. If anyone has Office 2008 on their Mac, perhaps you could give this a try and let us know.
I hope that this information is helpful.
Martha
Posted by biomedref at March 3, 2008 12:13 PM