Back to School: Malkinware Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X

TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for college-level help.

If you're a college researcher, grad student, or undergrad, Malkinware's new Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X might be just the tool to help you with your academic research. Just in time for Back to School, Malkinware is even offering a 35% discount off of the $44.95 list price through September 30, 2008.

Reference Tracker creates documents that store citations and references used in books, research projects, or essays, and creates Harvard or APA formatted reference lists on demand. You can also:

Create Full References in a single step
Reference Web Pages and Emails with a single click
Easily import existing Reference Lists
Integration with Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages
Easily Organize References
Export formatted lists to anywhere
Add Sticky Notes to References

There's no need to type out the details of a referenced book. You type in the book's ISBN, and Reference Tracker gathers the details from the internet automatically. When creating Web page or email references, Reference Tracker can pull the details from Safari, Firefox, or Mail with one click.

A fully-functional 21-day trial is available from the Malkinware Web site. For info about other Mac research tools, read Brett's excellent Back to School post.

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Source: http://www.malkinware.com/referencetracker/

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neal

With less features, but a better price (free), check out the wonderful (and did I mention free) http://www.ottobib.com/
Feed it a book's ISBN or a list of ISBNs and it creates bibliography entries in 6 different formats.
It makes my life better.

August 18 2008 at 10:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tdowling

I think this app has some good potential, but as it is right now, it doesn't look like it's geared toward more hard-core researchers and higher ed. students.

If the developers could integrate a search of scholarly databases, that would be FANTASTIC. For me, Amazon is useless; PubMed, PsychINFO, or even just Google Scholar would be the awesome. And of course, more exporting options.

August 18 2008 at 5:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Steve

Check out Papers: http://mekentosj.com/papers/

August 21 2008 at 10:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Henning

Anyone looking for a good reference manager should try BibDesk, which is free and awesome. Combine it with Skim and you're all set for note taking as well.

August 18 2008 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shunnabunich

That's Mal-KIN-ware, folks. ;)

August 18 2008 at 10:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Leif

What good is a reference tracker that cannot export to bibtex?

August 18 2008 at 10:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jim McGowan

Reference Tracker can indeed export to BibTex. Other export file types include RIS, Word, RTF, TXTand HTML

Jim McGowan
Reference Tracker Developer

August 18 2008 at 6:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

yoinkers

Why would I use something like this to generate .bib files when I can use the excellent and FREE bibdesk application?

Seriously TUAW, where's the LaTeX/BibTeX love?

August 19 2008 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

There are several well-established and powerful bibliographic programs for Mac out there already: for example, Bookends and EndNote. From the Malkinware web site, it looks like Reference Tracker is aimed at high school students and possibly undergraduates, certainly not graduate students and absolutely not at professional researchers. I hope someone (else) does a review.

August 18 2008 at 9:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vijesh

plez mail me a Demonoid Invitation code...

vijesh_viju@yahoo.co.in
Thankyou...

August 18 2008 at 9:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply