refer is a program for managing bibliographic references, and citing them in troff , nroff , and groff documents. It is implemented as a preprocessor .
10-489: (Redirected from Referral ) [REDACTED] Look up refer or referral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Refer or referral may refer to: Reference , a relation of designation or linking between objects Word-sense disambiguation , when a single term may refer to multiple meanings Referral marketing , to personally recommend, endorse, and pass
20-646: A motion in parliamentary procedure Refer (software) , the tr-off preprocessor for citations Rede Ferroviária Nacional , the Portuguese rail network manager Referral, a form of instant replay in cricket Criminal referral , a document recommending investigation of crimes to the appropriate authority HTTP referer , the address of the webpage of the resource which links to an internet webpage or resource See also [ edit ] Referee (disambiguation) Reference (disambiguation) Referent Reefer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
30-445: A person to a qualified professional or service Referral (medicine) , to transfer a patient's care from one clinician to another Commit (motion) , a motion in parliamentary procedure Refer (software) , the tr-off preprocessor for citations Rede Ferroviária Nacional , the Portuguese rail network manager Referral, a form of instant replay in cricket Criminal referral , a document recommending investigation of crimes to
40-433: Is a text file consisting of a series of records, separated by one or more blank lines. Within each record, each field starts with a %-sign at the beginning of the line and one character immediately after. The name of the field should be followed by exactly one space, and then by the contents of the field. Empty fields are ignored. The conventional meaning of each field is shown in the table below. Compare this scheme with
50-403: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Refer (software) refer was written by Mike Lesk at Bell Laboratories 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 , refer sees little use, primarily because troff itself
60-578: Is not used much for longer technical writing that might need software support for reference and citation management. As of 2016 , some reference management software (for instance, RefWorks ) will import refer data. refer works with a "reference file", a text file where the author lists works to which they might want to refer. One such reference, to an article in a journal in this case, might look like: The author then can refer to it in their troff, groff, or nroff document by listing keywords which uniquely match this reference: A refer bibliographic database
70-468: The appropriate authority HTTP referer , the address of the webpage of the resource which links to an internet webpage or resource See also [ edit ] Referee (disambiguation) Reference (disambiguation) Referent Reefer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Refer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
80-439: The free dictionary. Refer or referral may refer to: Reference , a relation of designation or linking between objects Word-sense disambiguation , when a single term may refer to multiple meanings Referral marketing , to personally recommend, endorse, and pass a person to a qualified professional or service Referral (medicine) , to transfer a patient's care from one clinician to another Commit (motion) ,
90-465: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Refer&oldid=1230763589 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages refer [REDACTED] Look up refer or referral in Wiktionary,
100-407: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Refer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Refer&oldid=1230763589 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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