[2] PubRef was a composition and project management application used by researchers and students for scholarly writing and communication.
A PubRef manuscript is a Markdown file within a container that contains extra embedded information that describes the essential front matter elements of a scholarly manuscript such as the title, short title, list of authors, author affiliations, key words.
Figures, tables, equations and other special content can be similarly embedded within the context of the document via Meta descriptors.
This minimal formatting example repurposes a classic paper by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology:[3] Once the essential frontmatter meta elements have been declared, manuscripts can be automatically submitted to academic publishers.
[4] Articles, supporting data, and dependent code can be published directly on PubRef in the form of personal communications under the DOI prefix 10.17920/P9.pubref.