Various tools, mostly packaged as Unix ‘shar’ archives:
– ref2bib, an awk script for converting Refer format bibliographies to BibTeX format;
– refer2bibtex, a Perl script for the same conversion;
– refer.bst, a tool to convert a BibTeX database to Refer format, using BibTeX itself;
– tex2refer, an awk-based script for the same conversion;
– refer-to-bibtex, a GNU-emacs program to convert Refer format bibliographies to BibTeX format;
– tib-to-bibtex, a C program to convert tib format bibliographies to BibTeX format.

The authors are Pierre Mareschal, Ulrich Fastenrath, Ciaran McHale, Dana Jacobsen, Frank Roth, Hartmut Palm, Henry Kautz and Bernd Fritzke.