| Original author(s) | Mike Lesk |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Reference management |
| License | depends on implementation |
refer is a program for managing bibliographic references, and citing them in troff, nroff, and groff documents. It is implemented as a preprocessor.
refer was written by Mike Lesk at Bell Laboratories[1][2] in or before 1978, and is now available as part of most Unix-like operating systems. A free reimplementation exists as part of the groff package.
As of 2015[update], refer sees little use, primarily because troff itself is not used much for longer technical writing that might need software support for reference and citation management. As of 2016[update], some reference management software (for instance, RefWorks) will import refer data.
- ^ Michael Lesk. Some applications of inverted indexes on the Unix system. In UNIX Programmer's manual: Supplementary Documents, volume 2. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, seventh edition, 1982. Also available online [1]
- ^ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139.
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