References is open source bibliographic software/reference management software (Linux, Windows) for authors and readers of scientific manuscripts. References processes bibliographic data for various document types: articles in journals, complete books, chapters or articles in books, and other document types including electronic documents. References is a terminal program which is used interactively with menus. For data entry users open text files with their text editor of choice.
References supports LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Microsoft Word and LaTeX with or without BibTeX. Bibliographic data in MEDLINE format (as downloaded from the PubMED database) are easily converted and imported. A database may be searched for bibliographic records by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of publication, place of publication, title of article, book title, journal name, document type (code), publisher, edition number or volume number of journal.
References generates formatted lists of references (bibliographies) for manuscripts and macros (Microsoft Word, LibreOffice writer, LaTeX) for generation of formatted in-text citations. Bibliographic styles for various journals (preferrably in the fields of biology, medicine) are made available on the supplementary files page. Users may write their own bibliographic styles by creating format definitions for lists of references and in-text citations.
References bibliographic tools (RBT) is a complementary package of scripts which may be used independently from References. At present it contains two perl scripts: excite.pl (makes lists of reference numbers from LaTeX documents) and medl2bib.pl (converts references in Medline format to .bib (BibTeX) format).
Current version: References
v4.3f
(July 22, 2021). In the
References manual
(PDF)
users will find detailed instructions for installation in section 11.
Version 4.3g is in preparation.
(Last updated March 2, 2024)