Locate references on the Internet without ever leaving Reference Manager. Search ISI Web of Science or  PubMed and use automated links to return to the original Web record and other related links. Choose from a list of over 300 Internet libraries (Z39.50 sites) and add new sites. Search hundreds of Internet libraries simultaneously. Save search strategies for easy updating.

Reference Manager captures data from hundreds of sources.

ISI ResearchSoft and the ISI team up to bring you an exclusive level of import capability with the Web of Science (citation database) and Current Contents Connect (current awareness database) and Discovery Agent (personal alerting service). Simply select the references you want, and export them directly into Reference Manager.

Launch your Web browser from Reference Manager to link to full-text articles, PDF files, related links, graphic files and more on the Web or your hard drive! With Reference Manager you can have multiple links in the same reference. For example, a biochemist can link a single reference to the full text of articles and to other relevant files such as chemical structures and protein sequences residing on the Web, a network or local drive. A simple click of the mouse launches the Web browser or appropriate Windows application to display the Web pages and files.

Spell check your references and create custom dictionaries. The spell checker offers phonetic suggestions, typographical suggestions, identifies repeated words, and supports multiple language dictionaries at your option. With the ability to customize dictionaries, users can include their own term lists from Reference Manager or elsewhere into their working dictionary.

Open up to fifteen databases at one time. Search for and retrieve references across multiple databases – even search for duplicates in multiple databases. Perform global edits on the retrieval set or save them to a new database. When it’s time to publish, Reference Manager searches one or all open databases to insert the correct citations in your manuscript. Only Reference Manager has this unique capability of working across multiple databases.

You can enter synonyms for authors, keywords and periodicals. For example, equate the word "alpha" with its Greek symbol a, and equate American and British spellings of words. Using synonyms, your searches will find references you might otherwise miss.

Reference Manager updates synonym lists dynamically as you add new keywords, authors and periodicals. This makes new terms immediately available, and always keeps your database up-to-date and current.

Search across multiple databases – up to ten databases can be open at one time. Reference Manager automatically retains your last ten search strategies as you refine your parameters. Once refined, you can save your strategy and recall it for later use, valuable when you perform the same search repeatedly.

View the fields you want to see. Conveniently edit references on the main display or view a formatted reference in your preferred output style. Click on column headings in your reference list to sort your database instantly. A second click reverses the order.

Reference Manager’s sophisticated duplicate checking ensures the most effective level of detection. Identical references may slip into your databases with a single misplaced or misspelled character. With Reference Manager you can refine the process to find duplicates even if all characters are not identical (a versus 'alpha'). Other software may not detect such references as duplicates.

Reference Manager includes 35 different reference types each with 33 fields. Take advantage of two Web reference types in Reference Manager, Electronic Citation and Internet Communication. These reference types contain fields such as sender’s and recipient’s e-mail addresses, medium, and Web URL.

Reference Manager offers an easy yet powerful way to cite references within your word processor. Create bibliographies using Reference Manager with Instant Formatting—all you do is select references to cite. Reference Manager takes care of formatting the bibliography in  hundreds of journal styles—you can even create your own styles.

With Reference Manager you work entirely within your word processor. This lets you concentrate on your writing while Reference Manager locates the correct citations – even across multiple databases.

Sharing your document for collaborative writing is easier with Reference Manager's traveling library that contains complete bibliographic data for all of your citations. Reference Manager creates a hidden traveling library automatically as you cite reference in Microsoft Word. When you're ready to send your document to colleagues, they'll have all the necessary information to reformat the citations and bibliography. Wherever the document goes, the references travel with it

The Cite While You Write with Instant Formatting feature is compatible with Microsoft Word for Windows 97, 2000, XP. The Cite While You Write feature is compatible with WordPerfect for Windows 8, 2000, 2002.

Reference Manager supports output styles for hundreds of journals. If you don’t see the name of the style you want to use, you can take a similar style and modify it with Reference Manager to create new ones.

Reference Manager creates in-text citations as required by the output style for your manuscript. If the style calls for an author/date or numbered format, Reference Manager inserts these citations in your manuscript.

Let Reference Manager format your manuscript – complete with in-text citations – in the output style you want. If you later decide to submit the manuscript to another publication which uses a different output style, simply choose the new style and let Reference Manager re-format the in-text citations and bibliography for you. You'll save hours of time and eliminate errors.

Reference Manager lets you preview and produce formatted, stand-alone bibliographies. Select all of your references or a marked set, choose the output style, and format the document as you would like to see the information, including or excluding specific fields. You can print to a file, directly to a printer, or you can preview the file first, using Print Preview. A formatted bibliography created from Reference Manager can be saved in various formats for later use. Choose Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, ASCII text, or HTML, for posting your bibliography to the Web.