JabRef
Reference management software
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JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management software.[3][4] It is used to collect, organize and search bibliographic information.
Original authorsMorten O. Alver, Nizar N. Batada, et al.
Initial release29 November 2003
| JabRef | |
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 JabRef 5.9 under Linux | |
| Original authors | Morten O. Alver, Nizar N. Batada, et al. |
| Developer | The JabRef team[1] |
| Initial release | 29 November 2003 |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Size | 180 MB |
| Available in | 23 languages |
List of languages Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (classical), Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese | |
| Type | Reference management |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
JabRef has a target audience of academics and many university libraries have written guides on its usage.[5][6][7] It uses BibTeX and BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for LaTeX.[8] The name JabRef stands for Java, Alver, Batada, Reference. The original version was released on November 29, 2003.[9]
Features
JabRef supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is available free of charge and is actively developed.
Collection
- Import options for over 15 reference formats.
- Extraction of metadata from PDFs.
- Retrieval of articles and bibliographic information based on identifiers (arXiv, Biodiversity Heritage Library, CrossRef, DiVA, DOI, IACR eprints, ISBN, Library of Congress, MathSciNet, mEDRA, PubMed, RFC, SAO/NASA ADS, and zbMATH).
- Support for the online scientific catalogues of ACM Portal, arXiv, CiteSeer, Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, CrossRef, DBLP, DOAJ, GVK, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE-HEP, MathSciNet, Medline, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, Springer, and zbMATH.
- Browser based reference importing with the JabFox add-on for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi.
Organization
- Supports hierarchical groupings based on keywords, tags, search terms etc.
- Includes features for searching, filtering and detecting duplicates.
- Attempts to complete partial bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogues such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet.
- Citation keys, metadata fields and file renaming rules are customizable.
Interoperability
- Thousands of citation styles are built-in.
- Cite-as-you-write functionality for external applications such as Emacs, Kile, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim and WinEdt.
- Support for Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice for inserting and formatting citations.
- Library is saved as a human-readable text file.
- When editing in a group, the library can be synchronized with a SQL database.