Offered for the CP/M operating system, it was ported to DOS and then Microsoft Windows and later the Apple Macintosh.
Subsequently, Thomson acquired EndNote and ProCite, the other two leading bibliographic management programs.
This allows anyone with a web browser to search and download references into their own bibliographic software.
After abandoning the development of Reference Manager in 2008, Thomson Reuters discontinued its sale on December 31, 2015, to focus exclusively on EndNote.
[5] In 2018, the Science division, which owned EndNote, separated from Thomson Reuters to become Clarivate.