GetARef 5.0 & 5.1

Main program: 

Update to last release of 5.1 (GetARef 5.1.30; 2003-08-17, 2.4 MB)

Import routines: 

Update to last release of 5.1 (GetARef 5.1.22; 2004-01-18, 3.0 MB)

Notes: 

The updates are not 'patches' - a complete new version of the software will be downloaded.
Therefore, if you have GetARef 5.0 or 5.1 installed you can safely update it using the links above.

History: 

Main program
Import routines

Bug fix: The height of the upper part of the dialog used to edit individual references was not always correct and as a consequence the edit boxes for the year, issue, etc., sometimes were not fully visible.

Adjustment: The condensed presentation format from PubMed has changed (the text displayed by GetARef in the dialog Tools|Import from PubMed after the user clicked Search) and therefore GetARefs code had to change.

Bug fix: An error related to specifying format file libraries in GetARef's Tools dialog was introduced in release 5.001.026 (affect document completion and generation of reference lists). This has been fixed.

Improvement #1: GetARef now makes of the 'Pick a file' dialog when the destination file in the dialog Tools|Import from PubMed. 

Improvement #2: GetARef was previously unable to import references with many (>10) author names from PubMed.

Improvement #3: GetARef's ability to handle line breakes within pseudo-citations of WordPerfect documents has been improved.

Enhancement: The MEDLINE format of Medlar no longer provides links to full text versions of papers. This data is, however, available in the XML format and moreover, the XML format uses a richer character encoding system.  GetARef not makes use of the XML format when importing directly from PubMed. 

Bug fix #1: Additional letters to avoid ambiguity (e.g., 1997b) was by mistaken dropped for citations with the 'year only' attribute.

Bug fix #2: Groups of pseudo-citations were always sorted alphabetically if they all shared the same 'text before'.

Bug fix #1: In some situationen the check box to request GetARef to ignore diacritic signs during finding and tagging was disabled.

Bug fix #2: There was no effect of setting the attribute of a citation to 'First in group' if citations in a group were to be sorted chronologically.

Bug fix #3: Some attributes of pseudo-citations were ignored when completing WordPerfect document and text before and after pseudo-citations were sometimes inappropriately trimmed.

Enhancement #1: This installation package should install GetARef's Add-in for Word XP (Word 2002) with most Word installations.

Enhancement #2: The logic behind identifying duplicates differs slightly when sorting the display order, creating lists or sorting reference files. The methods have now been reshaped to minimize inconsistences as well as the number of 'false alarms' with respect to duplicates.   

Bug fix: The tabular edit controls for editor names and transators did not fit the assigned window and for that reason the right column 'jumped' to the left when entering personal names.

Bug fix #1: GetARef didn't automatically sort the reference file if reprint numbers for added or removed (Edit|Appy reprint number) but all tagging was unnecessarily removed.

Bug fix #2: GetARef unnecessarily removed all tagging if a single reference was deleted.

Bug fix #3: When GetARef completes a document it creates an out document with a name of the type OldName_OUT.xxx, i.e., GetARef adds '_OUT' at the end of the file name. GetARef was previously unable to create a correct out file name if the path or the document name contained a full stop ('.').

Additional feature #1: It is now possible to customize GetARef's internet access using the Internet tab on the dialog Tools|Options. It is possible to specify that GetARef should automatically check for updates and to specify a proxy server.

Additional feature #2: GetARef now not only warns after document completion but also inserts a warning into the generated Word document when any pseudo-citation contains '{{' (this typically indicate that a pseudo-citation of a citation group lacks the terminating '}}').

Bug fix: Reference lists generated in the Rich Text Format could previously not always be opened in a word processor. 

Additional feature: It is now possible to generate reference lists in the HTML format.

The explore this new feature, download the sample format files HTML_Short.for and HTML_Long.for to your format directory. Use HTML_Long.for with a suitable reference file to generate a reference list in the HTML format with the name LongFile.htm and use HTML_Short.for to create the file ShortFile.htm (don't include the comment in the lists). The resulting file ShortFile.htm will contain a simple reference list with the text 'Abstract' following each reference providing a link to LongFile.htm that contains the references and their abstract.

Bug fix: During document complettion with release 5.001.017, GetARef always attempted to complete WordPerfect files using Word. Users without Word installed would get an error message whereas those with Word installed would get a result that would not look exactly as when using GetARef's routines for WordPerfect

Adjustment: To adapt to WordPerfect Office 2002, GetARef's handling of the Clipboard when creating pseudo-citations and formatted references had to be modified; this does not affect users of Microsoft Word or other word processors (new macro files are on their way for WP 2002 users).

Bug fix: GetARef crashed when encountering large groups of pseudo-citations all with the 'year only' attribute. While such groups never are useful when producing manuscripts, GetARef should behave sensibly if they inserted by mistake.

Bug fix #1: GetARef did not always include correct references in reference lists from a reference file when the reference file was opened, contained deleted records, and was displayed in any sorting order other then 'original'.

Bug fix #2: When dragging references from a reference window with only tagged references displayed, the wrong references were dragged (as evident from the message displayed by GetARef).

Adjustment #1: If the format file specified the journal name format 'As in   reference file', GetARef did not  check the journal name database to see if the journal required issue specifications in formatted references. GetARef now always attempts to figure out the issue is required.

Adjustment #2: In alphabetically sorted reference list it's possible to specify in a format file that repeated author names should be 'skipped' (usually replaced by, e.g., '---'). This worked with document completion but not also with the command Tools|Create reference lists.

Bug fix #1: When clicking the button Apply to All formats in the dialog for defining fields in format files, sometimes the definitions of other fields were ruined.

Bug fix #2: When opening a format file for editing the check box Skip repeated author names was inappropriately always cleared.

Bug fix #3: The format files of version 5.1 is different from previous versions. Old format files are automatically adjusted to the new format. Sometimes, however, some field definitions disappeared during this process.

Bug fix #1: The re-introduction of correct national alphabetical sorting orders (2001-10-02) had the side effect that when sorting references by author names, references without authors were not automatically put at the beginning of the list.

Bug fix #2: It is possible to reset the style of text in the dialog for editing and adding references. Neither the 'N' button, nor the acceleration key Ctrl+Space did always work as intended to 'normalize' selected text.

Bug fix #3: Japanese authors names entered with the Shift-JIS character set were not handled correctly when edited in the author names tables of the dialog for editing and adding references.

Bug fix #1: Character sorting according to various national alphabetical orders did not work with only a few exceptions.

Bug fix #2: When adding the ISSN field to an 'old' format file, odd things sometimes happened to the definitions of other fields.

Bug fix #3: There was a mismatch between the style of displayed examples of single citations and the corresponding settings in the style combobox in the dialog Edit a format file; the eventual format was correct but not the displayed example.

Adjustment: Because GetARef's web site has been slightly reorganized GetARef was unable to check the web for updates.

Bug fix #1: GetARef did not always find the correct help file when a user requested help (for instance in the dialog "Edit in text mode").

Bug fix #2: GetARef by mistake did not erase temporary files used when importing references from PubMed.

Improvement #1: Two new reference fields: ISBN and Translators' names, and three new fields for formatting: ISSN, ISBN and Translators' names.

Improvement #2: Special controls to edit links from references to disk files, web documents or web sites.

Improvement: GetARef's ability to handle line breakes within pseudo-citations of WordPerfect documents has been improved.

Bug fix #1: The 'LED' to the left of the tag box did not correctly indicate the formal structural status of the displayed reference when the display order was sorted.

Bug fix #2: Speed buttons were not refreshed after using the Locate dialog. In particular, the buttons to display only tagged references could be inappropriately active or inactive when the Locate dialog was closed.

Bug fix #3: Although prepared to export records in the RIS import format of both CHAP and BOOK types, only CHAP records were exported.

Quirk: The English dialog Tag status by mistake included some labels and caption in Swedish.

Improvement: While editing a manuscript with pseudo-citations, one may unintentionally delete one of the curly parentheses, e.g., "{Brown, 1998}}" or "{{Brown, 1998}". The first kind of error is easy to handle because this pseudo-citation will ot be recognized by GetARef and therefore appear unmodified in the final OUT document. The second kind of error, i.e., an erroneous termination of the pseudo-citation, may be more problematic. Previously GetARef warned if no termination was found within a reasonable distance from '{{'. It is, however, possible to have a second pseudo-citation within 'reasonable distance', e.g., "... {{Brown, 1998}. This was also shown by Smith {{Smith, 1992 <Year only>}}."  In this case, all text from "Brown, 1998}.." to "..<Year only>" will be taken as a user comment and therefore discarded. With this version, GetARef provides a warning if this kind of construction are detected in a manuscript.

Bug fix: GetARef took into account the publication dates when displaying preview data from PubMed but not when actually downloading the references from PubMed. This has been corrected.

Quirk: GetARef did not allow two strings to be entered in the list of 'previous search expression' of the Tag dialog if the strings were the same except for their case. E.g., once "au(brown)" had been entered, "AU(Brown)" was not accepted unless the version in lower cases was first removed.

Addition: There is a new speed button corresponding to GetARef's command Tools|Import from PubMed.

Bug fix #1: GetARef can automatically re-sort the display order of a reference file, e.g., after a reference has been added to the file. This re-sorting typically is quickly done but while this was done it was previosly possible to access the reference file, e.g., by opening the edit dialog window, and this sometimes caused strange error messages to appear (e.g., Out of memory).

Bug fix #2: If 'over-write' was selected for an opened reference file when importing references and the reference file ended up empty because no references could be opened, GetARef became unstable.   

Additional import format: ENERGY from STN. References from journals are imported correctly.The format of these dump files doesn't, however, allow secure import of editors, publishers, etc. Such records are therefore incompletely imported.

Adjusted import format: The author format of dump files of the type Download format of Ingenta has been changed and required a modification of the corresponding import routines.

Adjustments #1: ASFA from Cambridge Abstract Service has changed dump file format.

Adjustments #1: Exceptional records in JICST dump files did not import correctly.

Extension: Support for importing references downloaded in the ENW file format used to import references to EndNote and used, for instance, by Aries Knowledgefinder CD (v.4.28)

Adjustment: GetARef now also imports ISBN for books in the RIS import format.

Adjustment #1: GetARef was not able to import all sources of records from CINAHL in the Ovid format.

Adjustment #2: GetARef is able to handle more variants of the JICST file format (applies only to Japanese versions of GetARef). 

Adjustment #1: Due to a minor modification in the ISI import format (as available from ISI Web of Science), GetARef recognized but did not import the reference files correctly. In addition to records with the tag 'PT Journal', GetARef is now able to import 'PT Book in Series' published in journals.

Adjustment #2: GetARef is now able to recognize and import references in the 'Medline' format delivered by Gateway (Gateway is replacing Internet Grateful Med). 

Added a supported format from SciFinder 2000 ('Dissertations').

Modified the help information regarding Medscape: the steps required for downloading references has changed and the resulting dump file now is identical to Medline from Medlar (PubMed).