• The user can change the language used for the interface and for online help.
• The colors and fonts of the interface can be adjusted.
• GetARef automatically adjusts to user's preferences, e.g., window size and layouts.

• An abunandance of user help: bubbel- help, context dependent help, overviews and richly indexed and cross-references online help.

• Well-organized windows makes it easy to browse and search also large amount of information.

  Example

• It is possible to communicate with Internet via a password procted proxy server.
• GetARef can automatically checked for availability of new program versions.
• Takes full advantage of a free web service developed by DatAid:  www.authorinstructions.com. This serive gives access to author instructions for >7,000 tidskrifter and >1,000 journal specific format files used by GetARef to create formatted references.

• GetARef connects directly to PubMed to make it easy to find and download references.
• Easy to downlad citations from practically all online journals.
• GetARef can, of course, also be used without any Internet connection.
• GetARef is aware of DOI and it is easy to link individual references to full text.

• GetARef can create and support an unlimited number of reference files ('data bases').
• It is possible to simultaneously have several reference files opened in different windows and even to 'drag' references from one file to another.
• GetARef can export referenser in the following formats: Medlar, RIS and BibTex.

• It is easy to change the display order of references.
• GetARef is able to use 'aliases' which simplifies working on several computer and to store references on LAN servers.

• It is easy to update from 'old' reference managing systems to GetARef (from REFED, EndNote, Reference Manager, etc).

  Example

• It is, of course, possible to import references from a very large number of sources. But GetARef also offers well designed dialogs editing and adding references.
• GetARef assists when entering references and checks that the entered information is reasonable (it warns, for instance, if the enteted 'year' is 19999) of if the journal name cannot be recognized.

• It is easy to import refernces from most online journals.
• It is possible to 'paste' references in several common formats including Medline, RIS och BibTex. This function makes it easy, for instance, to take advantage of the citation information provided by Scholar Google.

• GetARef has a data base with > 18,000 journal names with the complete names, abbrevitations according Medlar, Index Medicus and BIOSIS but also their ISSN numbers.

  Example

• GetARef doesn't impose any particular way of organizing reprints or references. 
• GetARef supports the use of 'reprint numbers' and allows a users to keep up as many as 20 different series of such numbers.

• Reprint number can easily be added, editied or removed from single or groups of references.

  Example

• GetARef is the only reference managing system that is completely independent on the user organizing their references by means of keywords or tags.
• With any preparation at all, GetARef searches several thousands references per second and indexed reference files of 100 MB or more within one or two seconds.
• In addition to standard boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) GetARef offers advanced operators  (ANY, NONE, ALL, NEAR).
• It is easy to search references using the type of search expressions popoular with for instance Google.

• It is possible to search specific 'ields', e.g.,  the title, the authors or the editors.
• It is possible to find references published with a specific time period. To find only references published after 1995 one can use >1995 or 1996-, and to search for references published during the 1980's one can enter 1980-89.
• GetARef can find references that are similar to a specific reference.
• GetARef can search multiple files with a single command

• THe user can easily create a list of synonyms to simplify certain kind of searches (for instance, to find not only calcium but also Ca⁺⁺ och Ca²⁺).

  Example

• References can be imported from > 130 different sources, nicluding Medline from Medlar, DIALOG, KR ProBase, DataStar, Reference Update and many more.
• GetARef automatically recognize the origin of downloaed references for most downloaded files and therefore can automatically select the correct import routnie.
• DatAid AB develops new import routnies for free.

• GetARef offers an interface directly to PubMed which enables a user to search for references, inspect the result and import them to a reference file.

• GetARef's import routines can be uppdated freely from GetARef's web site.

  Example

• Formated reference list can be created in document files as well as for printnig.
• New formats can easily be created under full visual control.
• Format files kan be improted freely from DatAid's free web service: www.authorinstructions.com.

• GetARef is the only reference managing system on the market that using its own journal name database can provide correct name formats for any journal, e.g., abbreviation according to Index Medicus or the complete journal name independently of the user preferred journal name format in the reference files.

Example

• By means of special place holders ('pseudo citations') GetARef can insert correct citation forms and correct reference lists in manuscripts.
• GetARef offers a seamless integratino with Microsoft Word 7.0-2010.
• GetARef works well with WordPerfect (5.1 - Office 2002).

• GetARef works with any word processor able to handle Rich Text Format.

• GetARef is adapted Latex (it can, for instance, handle the include command and does produce numbered reference lists in 'Latex style')

  Example

• The users decides where citations should appear and where in the manuscript the reference list should be inserted. Then GetARef creates the finished manuscript in a few seconds.
• GetARef allows users to use citations from any number of reference files in a single manuscript.

• GetARef learn the format of citations and reference lists from so-called format files. Such files can easily be created under full visual control but also downloaded freely from DatAid's free web service: www.authorinstructions.com.

  Example

• Free support is provded by e-mail.

• DatAid regularly offers free updates of import routnies, for improvements and for bug fixes (see example ). New routines to to references from public databases are developed for freem with a few days.

OS

• Windows 95 - Windows 7.

• Serveral users can use a single GetARef installation on a single computer

Reference files

• Unlimited number of reference files.

• A reference file can contain 65,532 referenser.
• Each reference can contain 16,384 characters.

LAN

• GetARef can be used in networks; it is, for instance, possible for a user to share reference files via a LAN server.
• GetARef supports UNC names (such as //OurServer/OurFiles/GroupFile.ref)

Output formats

• GetARef is able to control in detal the format of references and create user defined formats.