Introduction
Hey!
This page may be out of date, as referencer is now being developed by some other folks -- if you're interested in getting involved, ask on the mailing list.
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 1.1.6, 2nd August 2009 (ChangeLog)
Source code: referencer-1.1.6.tar.gz
Ubuntu package: Get it from GetDeb
Ubuntu users can also "apt-get install referencer". However, it is advisable to look on getdeb.net to see if a more recent version is available there.
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 since 5.0
ZenWalk package: Referencer is available in the main ZenWalk repository