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Introduction:Welcome to Reference Manager
The Reference
Manager
Website
The Reference Manager website (http://www.refman.com)
contains technical support tips, utilities for data transfer, and
information about the latest versions of Reference Manager. You
can learn about the various training options. You can also find
updated styles, filters, and other related documents at this site.
Go to the website and look under Support and Services.
To easily locate incremental updates available on the website, go
to the Help menu in Reference Manager and select Updates.
The Reference
Manager
Discussion
Forum
If you wish to join an ongoing forum of Reference Manager users
like yourself, go to the Reference Manager website at
http://www.refman.com, click on Support & Services, and then
scroll down and click on the link to go to the Reference Manager
Discussion Forum. You can browse several Reference Manager
message lists, easily search for topics, and join to add messages.
New Features in Reference Manager 12
New Database Features
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Default to opening your database with Read-Write Exclusive
access, rather than Read-Write Share access.
NOTE: A database that is set up for Read-Write Web publishing access
cannot be opened as Read-Write Exclusive.
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Easily transport file attachments with your database. Rather
than attaching files to references with an absolute path to the
file, you can copy the files to a common folder and use a
relative path.
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Quickly move to the previous or next reference in the
Reference window with Previous and Next arrows.
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Spell check a single reference or all references in your
database.
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Add to your Periodical term lists to standardize data entry or
print journal abbreviations. In addition to Chemical,
Humanity, and Medical terms, import terms from
Anthropology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bioscience,
Economics, Law, Philosophy, Religion, and Zoological
Records.
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Opt to ignore punctuation in author names when comparing
possible duplicate references.