Reference Manager
Reference Manager is a commercial reference management software package sold by the Thomson Corporation.
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. You can specify whether users are allowed to make edits to the database. EndNote and ProCite do not offer this functionality.
Should you wish to share your reference collection with a wider audience (including people without Reference Manager), Reference Manager Web Publisher allows you to publish your 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 is possible to password protect your site and also allow others to edit the reference information. Web Publisher includes everything you need to interact with SOAP and WSDL standard services. Reference Manager enables an individual to post databases to the Web in seconds, and organisations to integrate reference collections into their own enterprise portals.
Reference Manager offers different in-text citation templates for each Reference Type. When writing papers, you may want to have a different in-text citation style depending on the reference type you are citing, or journal you are writing for. For example, if you insert a reference for a Book which appears as (Smith, 1999), using Reference Manager you can also insert a reference for a Journal, and it could appear differently, e.g. Smith, 1999 (without the brackets). EndNote only allows one or the other and all reference types must follow the same template.
A concurrent metering utility is provided with Reference Manager, which provides a way of managing the number of Reference Manager licenses being used at any one time (EndNote and ProCite do not allow this).
Both Reference Manager and ProCite allow you to place a check next to references, instead of the EndNote method of highlighting them. Checked references can then be assigned to groups, globally edited, copied, moved and cited and so on - at the same time.
In addition, Reference Manager also allows you to use synonyms within your database. For example, you could specify that "Animal" is a synonym of "Animals", so that when you search your references for "Animal", references containing "Animals" are also returned.
Reference Manager is only compatible with Microsoft Windows.
See also
Comparison of reference management software
External links
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