The RefBank search portal offers the following functionality:
- Search the Bibliography of Life via the search form:
- Full text field: full text search in plain reference strings
- Type selector: filter by type of referenced work
- Author(s) field: search by author names
- Title field: search by publication titles or parts thereof
- Year field: search by year of publication
- Origin (Journal/Publisher) field: search by journal name and volume, publisher and location, or book title
- Double-click a reference string in the search result to select it for copy & paste
- Hover a reference string in the search result with the mouse to reveal further options:
- Retrieve references in multiple file formats for import in bibliography management software
- Retrieve references in multiple styles, e.g. for immediate use in a publication
- Contribute to the Bibliography of Life:
- Parse Reference / Refine Parsed Reference: Open a reference string in a working dialog to mark individual attributes
- Edit Reference: Edit a reference string, e.g. to correct a typo (the original one becomes a duplicate of the edited version)
- Delete: Flag a reference string as deleted, so it does not show in search results by default (the Show references flagged as deleted button makes these references show again, and you can un-delete them)
- Show Duplicates: show a list of duplicates of a reference:
- Make Representative: make a reference the representative of the cluster of duplicates it belongs to, so it shows up in search results instead of the current one
- Not a Duplicate: remove a reference from a cluster of duplicates, putting it back on the top level, so it shows up in search results by itself
- Drag reference A and drop it on reference B to indicate that A is a duplicate of B