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A patch (p1) has been issued for References bibliographic software v4.3f.

• The user interface has been improved
• Parts of the manual have been rewritten

Updated References manual refs-4.3e-manual-2021-01-10.zip released (January 10, 2021)

In the last weeks bibliographic style packages for References v4.3e were released. The packages comprise format definitions for lists of references, for appropriate in-text citations and short text files with documentation. So far the packages:

• Annals of Hematology bibliographic style
• APA (American Psychological Association) style
• Chicago style
• Vancouver style

were issued. Format definitions in these packages may serve as templates for users' own style packages. They are available via the the References project page for supplementary files. More packages will follow, existing packages will be improved and updated.

The script/macro files (.fde, .sr) of the bibtex-for-zotero package allow to generate a file in BibTeX format for the transfer of records from References to a database of the Zotero reference management program.

The procedure is described in "bibtex-for-zotero.txt". The package is available via the the References project page.

From now on, bibliographic style definitions (mostly biomedical journals) for lists of references and for citations in the text will me made available on the References project page http://references.sourceforge.net/supplement.html They may be used directly or serve authors as examples to write their own bibliographic styles.

The archive: refs-4.3e-i386.tar.gz provides Linux 32-bit (i386) binary executable files, sample databases, documentation for installation, for details on the installation process see the manual (refsdok.pdf section 11.2).

• References is now available with precompiled binary executable (program) files for Linux 64-bit (x86_64) and Windows (64-bit, 32-bit) systems

• User interface has been slightly enhanced

• Colored menu options are now also available for Windows: this requires a terminal which prcesses ANSI escape control sequences, e.g. the Windows Terminal (Microsoft) or the ConEmu terminal program

• In the user manual, the description of the installation procedure for Linux and Windows systems has been completely rewritten... read more

Starting with September 22, 2007, updated manuals (between official versions) are now also made available as HTML documents (in addition to PDF) on the documentation page

http://references.sourceforge.net/doku.html

of the References website

http://references.sourceforge.net

REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data. The current version of REFERENCES
is provided with a text based console interface for
Linux and win32-systems.

Installation of the win32 port of references requires
r43d.zip or r43d.exe (r43d.exe is a self extracting
archive identical with r43d.zip).

Installation of the linux port requires both
refs-4.3d-rt.tar.gz (runtime files and documentation
including the manual refsdok.pdf) and
refs-4.3d-src.tar.gz (the sourcecode to build the
binaries). For details on the building and installation
process users should refer to References manual
(refsdok.pdf).... read more

REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data. The current version of REFERENCES
is provided with a text based console interface for
Linux and win32-systems, an external text editor is
required for editing data.

Installation of the win32 port of references requires
r43c.zip or r43c.exe (r43c.exe is a self extracting
archive identical with r43c.zip).... read more

Linux: now Linux installations with both utf-8 encoding (default, as in
v4.3) and with latin-1 or latin-9 encoding (new in v4.3b) of text files
are supported (latin-1/9 encoding added in v4.3b).

The menu [main-t ed] has now also been added as [main-e ed] for ease of
use. The manual has been updated.

Text viewing function: in the following situations

[main-t vi]
[edit-main-v]
[main-e c a] (viewing of abstract files)
[main-e s a] (viewing of abstract files)
[main-e b ... a] (viewing of abstract files)... read more

REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and
for management of bibliographic data.

Updated and new bibliographic and macro format definitions are made available
on the project homepage:

http://references.sourceforge.net

Beginning with v4.3, References is provided as Linux and a win32 application.
Encoding of the internal data representation and of .arr, .fd and text files
has been changed. Minor bugs has been removed.... read more

refs-4.3-i386.tar.gz
contains 32-bit Linux binaries of References v4.3. They were compiled on a
SUSE 10.1 system.

Copy the files to directory ~/refs43/bin (or its equivalent). For details on
installation of References see refsdok.pdf

REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data. The current version of REFERENCES
is provided with a text based console interface for
Linux and win32-systems, an external text editor is
required for editing data.

Installation of the win32 port of references requires
r43.zip or r43.exe (a self extracting archive
identical with r43.zip).... read more

Summary: REFERENCES bibliographic tools is planned as a set of scripts and programs useful for working with bibliographic data.

In its current version, RBT comprises:

excite.pl: extracts citations from a LaTeX document.

medl2bib.pl: converts bibliographic records from MEDLINE format to BibTeX

REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data. The current version of REFERENCES
is provided with a text based console interface
compiled for win32-systems, an external text editor is
required for editing data.

Updated and new bibliographic and macro format
definitions are made available on the project homepage:

http://references.sourceforge.net... read more