Reference Manager
| Developer(s) | Research Information Systems; later acquired by Thomson ISI ResearchSoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1984 |
| Stable release | 12
/ 02-09-2008 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Macintosh (no version for Linux) |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Reference management |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.refman.com |
Reference Manager was a commercial reference management software package sold by Thomson Reuters. It was the first commercial software of its kind, originally developed by Ernest Beutler and his son, Earl Beutler, in 1982 through their company Research Information Systems. Offered for the CP/M operating system, it was ported to DOS and then Microsoft Windows and later the Apple Macintosh. Sale was discontinued on December 31, 2015.
Operation
Reference Manager is most commonly used by people who want to share a central database of references and need to have multiple users adding and editing records at the same time. It is possible to give each user specify read-only or edit rights to the database. Competing package EndNote does not offer this functionality, but Citavi does.
Reference Manager offers different in-text citation templates for each Reference Type. It also allows to use synonyms within a database. Reference Manager Web Publisher allows publishing a reference databases to an intranet or internet site. This allows anyone with a web browser to search and download references into their own bibliographic software. It includes the functionality to interact with SOAP and WSDL standard services.
Updates
After abandoning the development of Reference Manager in 2008, Thomson Reuters discontinued the sale on December 31, 2015 to focus exclusively on Endnote.[1] Endnote X7 can import Reference Manager databases and convert Word documents formatted with Reference Manager into EndNote formatting. Reference Manager databases can also be imported into Citavi,[2] Reference Manager formatted Word documents are converted into the Citavi format. Citavi permits to install a database for teamwork locally, as is possible with Reference Manager, while EndNote's team function is cloud based.
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