ProCite, a commercial reference management software program, was designed in the early 1980s by Victor Rosenberg, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
[5] ProCite versions 1.x and 2.x ran on computers using the PC DOS and MS-DOS operating systems.
In 1987, Science published a review of the DOS version of ProCite, along with four other reference manager programs.
[8][9] ProCite 3.1 and later versions included a Z39.50 client for searching and downloading records from library catalogs and other databases providing a Z39.50 server.
ProCite was popular among librarians because the program had features designed for the production of scholar bibliographies.