Referencer

A document organiser and bibliography manager for Gnome

Introduction

Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier:

  • Smart web links
    Referencer uses documents' metadata to provide handy links to the document's web location — no need to maintain your own bookmarks.
  • Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote
    No need to start from scratch — Referencer will import your existing bibliography files using the BibUtils library.
  • Tagging
    No need to organise your documents into rigid directory trees — with Referencer you can use tags to categorise your documents.
  • Automatic arXiv, PubMed and CrossRef metadata retrieval
    If you show Referencer a PDF which has an arXiv ID or DOI code, Referencer will retrieve the metadata for this document over the internet.
  • Python plugin support
    Referencer can be extended using the versatile Python scripting language.
  • Localisation
    Referencer is translated into many languages.

Getting Referencer

The latest version of referencer is 1.1.5, 13th October 2008 (ChangeLog)

Source code: referencer-1.1.5.tar.gz

Ubuntu package: Get it from GetDeb
It is not advisable to "apt-get install referencer", since the version in the ubuntu repositories is significantly out of date.

Distribution packages may not always correspond to the latest version of referencer. If there is not yet a package for your distribution, you'll need to compile referencer from source. See the development page for more details.

Fedora package: Referencer is available from the fedora-extras repository for Fedora Core versions 6 and 7.

Gentoo Ebuild: Bugzilla thread

Mandriva package:
Mandriva Linux 2008 has Referencer 1.1.1 in its /contrib/backports repository, and Referencer 1.0.4 in its /contrib/release repository. More information is available on installing software and using backports. Older packages are available for earlier releases.

Debian package: Referencer is available in debian unstable

ZenWalk package: Referencer is available in the main ZenWalk repository