4 Neatrefer troff preprocessor is a small refer clone for managing
5 bibliographic references. It assumes that each record in the database
6 has an 'L' key, which specifies the label of the record. When
7 referencing, only this key is looked up among the records in the
8 database. Therefore, Neatrefer is not compatible with the original
11 Citing in Neatrefer can be done by including the label of the record
12 between .[ and .] request lines. In addition, other citation macros
13 can be defined using -o option. For example with -ocite option,
14 the record with label utp87 can be cited as follows:
19 When using numbered citation style Neatrefer replaces them with the
25 And when using author-year citation style (-a option), Neatrefer
26 replaces them with with the following lines (after the citation macro,
27 publication date, the number of authors, and last names of the authors
30 .cite 1987 2 Dougherty O'Reilly
31 \*[cite 1987 2 Dougherty O'Reilly]
33 With -m option, Neatrefer allows multiple references in a single
34 citation, as a comma separated list of labels; refer tries to use
35 reference intervals for them if possible (-a and -m cannot be used