New update for References bibliographic software v5.0.d

Volker Kiefel — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:10:50 -0000

Version 5.0.d is a bugfix update with minor modifications.

New version (v5.0.c) of References bibliography software released

Volker Kiefel — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:59:49 -0000

Changes (v5.0.c)

Bugfix
Change in user interface (see sections 3.1.1 and 15 of the
manual (refsdok.pdf) (references.sourceforge.net)).

New version (v5.0.b) of References bibliography software released

Volker Kiefel — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:15:08 -0000

This is a bugfix release with some slightly modified functions.

New version (v5.0.a) of References bibliography software released

Volker Kiefel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:23:37 -0000

This is mainly a bugfix release with few new items.

Changes

Bugfixes
Change in permission to delete entries in the journal data table ([main-f j])
Manual updated

New version (v5.0) of References bibliography software released

Volker Kiefel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:51:58 -0000

Changes (v5.0)

Beginning with v5.0 References uses a database in sqlite-format
instead of the application-specific database and index format used in
previous versions. Therefore large parts of the code have been rewritten.
Databases from the previous version can be transferred to v5.0 with
archive (.arr) files.
The user interface of the software is now less complex
Parts of the manual have been rewritten
The terminology of format definitions has been made more precise. Format
definitions for in-text-citations and lists of references are made available
on the project web page
(supplementary files)
Export of data for import into the Zotero
software has been implemented, this function is available in the
bibtex-for-zotero package

References patch

Volker Kiefel — Sun, 28 May 2023 14:04:00 -0000

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

New version of References bibliographic software released (v4.3f, July 22, 2021)

Volker Kiefel — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:08:59 -0000

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

References bibliographic software: manual

Volker Kiefel — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:14:30 -0000

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

Updated References bibliographic style packages released (December 24, 2020)

Volker Kiefel — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:35:59 -0000

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.

References macro package for data transfer from References to Zotero released

Volker Kiefel — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:03:42 -0000

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.

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