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Tillbaks User interface

  • GetARef employs the same interface as is used in all major software products under Windows 95/98/NT/Windows 2000/XP/Vistas, i.e., it's easy to start using GetARef.
  • The user can easily customize colors and fonts used to display reference information.
  • GetARef dynamically adapts to the user's habits, e.g., size and placement of windows and dialogs.
  • User help on different levels: bubble help, context sensitive help, overviews and a richly indexed and cross-referenced online help file.
  • Well organized windows makes it easy to browse through even very lage libraries of reference information.

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Tillbaks Use of Internet

  • Possible to make internet connections by password protected proxy server.
  • Automatic notification when new GetARef releases become available via Internet.
  • Makes full use of the Web site developed by DatAid: www.authorinstructions.com. This site allows access to author instructions for >7000 journals and to >1000 format files that specify journal-specific citation formats.
  • Online connection to PubMed for easy download of references.
  • Easy download of citations from most online journals.
  • GetARef can be used without Internet connection but with obvious loss of some functionality.

Tillbaks Reference files

  • GetARef support an unlimited number of reference files ('databases').
  • It is possible to simultaneously have several reference files open in different windows, it's possible to drag-and-drop references between files, and it's possible to use references from more than one file in a single manuscript.
  • It's easy to customize the display order of references.
  • GetARef can export reference files in the Medlar, RIS, and BibTex formats.
  • By means of 'name aliases' it's easy to work with GetARef on more than computer even if different directory structures are used on the computers.
  • It is simple to update from an older types of reference manager to GetARef (from, for instance, Papyrus™, EndNote™ and Reference Manager™)
  • GetARef can be used in LANs and it's easy for users to share files across a  network.

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Tillbaks Links

  • GetARef make it possible to associate up to 20 different links to individual references.
  • Such links may refer to a web page or a file located on the local computer or in an local area network (e.g., full text version in pdf format or a graphics file). A simple mouse click can then be used to 'activate' the link, e.g., to view a full-text version of a publication.
  • GetARef imports links retrieved from downloaded database records (it is, for instance, increasingly common that databases includes links to full-text versions of publications).
  • Specifically, GetARef recognizes DOI numbers that uniquely identifies electronic documents and allow linking to DOI documents. And DOI numbers can be included in formatted references.

Tillbaks Entering reference information

  • It is, of course, possible to import references from a large number of sources but GetARef offers well-structured dialogs that makes it easy to enter new references also for a beginner.
  • GetARef can import references from most online journals.
  • It is possible to 'paste' references (Ctrl+V).  GetARef supports several formats including Medline, RIS and BibTex. This function makes it easy to take advantage of citations retrieved using, for instance, Scholar Google.
  • GetARef assists by always checking that entered information is reasonable: e.g., a warning is provided if an author name is entered as sMITH or if the entered publication year by mistake is 19999).
  • GetARef features a journal name database containing > 18.000 names including complete journal names and and their ISSN codes together with their correct abbreviations according to Medlar, Index Medicus och BIOSIS.

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Tillbaks Reprint numbers

  • GetARef doesn't impose on its users any particular way of organization reprints. 
  • GetARef supports use of reprint numbers; it's possible to keep as many as 20 different 'series' of reprint numbers.

  • Reprint numbers can easily be added - or removed - from single of groups of references.

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Tillbaks Searching references

  • GetARef is the only reference managing system that doesn't dependent on the user to organize the references by means of keywords or the like.
  • Without any time-consuming preparation on the user's part, GetARef scans several thousands of references in a fraction of a second, and an indexed reference file as large as 100 MB in no more than a few seconds.
  • In addition to standard Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), GetARef offfers advanced operators (ANY, NONE, ALL, NEAR).
  • It is possible to search specific 'fields', e.g., the title, author names, editor names and the abstract.
  • It is possible to search for references published in a certain time span. To search for references published after 1995, useful search expressions are >1995 and 1996-, and to search for papers published by Smith in the 80's, one would use Smith AND 1980-89.
  • GetARef is able to find references similar to a particular reference and sort them by similarity.
  • GetARef allows multi-file searching, i.e., it's possible to search a defined group of reference files by a single search command.
  • GetARef features a Search Thesaurus by which a user can create useful synonyms, i.e, it's possible to search for calcium and to find not only calcium but also Ca++ and Ca2+.

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Tillbaks Importing references

  • References can be imported from > 130 different sources, including various Internet source such as PubMed, but also CD or Intranet based database retrieval from DataStar, Dialog, Silverplatter, WinSPIRS, WebSPIRS, and many others.
  • GetARef automatically recognizes the origin of a downloaded file and accordingly suggests an appropriate import routine.
  • DatAid AB develops for free new import routines to all GetARef's users.
  • Updated import routines are freely distributed via GetARef's web site.
  • GetARef provides an interface to PubMed that allows users to perform searches, inspect search results, and import references directly into a reference file.

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Tillbaks Creating reference lists

  • Formated reference lists can be created as document files or on a printer.
  • New output formats are swifly created under full visual control.
  • Output formats ('format files') can be imported from a free web service developed by DatAid: www.authorinstructions.com.
  • GetARef is the only reference manager on the market that can use correct journal name formats, e.g., abbrevations according to Index Medicus or the complete journal name whatever name form was used in the reference file.

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Tillbaks Integration with word processors

  • GetARef transforms manuscripts containing place-holders for citations and a reference list into submission-ready papers with correct citations form and properly arranged reference lists.
  • GetARef integrates with Microsoft Word 7.0-Office 2003 by means of Add-in modules.
  • GetARef works well with WordPerfect (5.1 - Office 2003).
  • GetARef works well with any word processor that handles Rich Text Format.
  • GetARef can produce output files suitable for LaTeX and create submission-ready LaTex documents. It supports the include directive and generates Latex style numbered reference list.

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Tillbaks Manuscript production

  • The user decides which references to cite where and the position of the reference list. GetARef than creates a submission-ready manuscript.
  • So-called format files are used to define the output format, i.e., how citations should be represented in the body text and the format of the reference list. Such format files can easily be created or imported from www.authorinstructions.com.
  • GetARef allows a user to cite references from multiple reference files in a single manuscript.

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Tillbaks User support

  • Support is provided primarily via E-mail but it's possible also communicate via fax and telephone.
  • DatAid offers GetARef's free updates of import routines and bug fixes of the main program (see examples To examples) and to develop new import routines for free with a few working days.

Tillbaks Technical information

Operating system

  • Windows 95 - Vistas.

  • Serveral users may use a single GetARef installation on a single computer after a simple initialization procedure that creates a user-specific GetARef environment.

Networks (LAN)

  • GetARef can be used in a LAN; it is, for instance, possible for users to share references stored on a file server.
  • GetARef supports UNC names (e.g. //OurServer/OurFiles/GroupFile.ref)

Reference files

  • Unlimited number of reference files.
  • A reference file can (for now) contain 65.532 references.
  • Each reference may contain 16384 characters (but may link to external files).

Output formats

  • GetARef allows the user to specify all aspects of formatted references and can therefore produce any suitable output format.
  • GetARef specifically supports export in the Medline and the RIS file format.

 

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