JabRef Bibliography Management
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Stay on top of your literature: JabRef helps you to collect and organize sources, find the paper you need and discover the latest research: JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and .
To get started, please follow the installation instructions and familiarize yourself with the basics of JabRef.
Use the Search icon at the top left of this page to find what you're looking for. To learn more about JabRef's features, please follow the links below.
Add new entries or the based on the
across many online scientific catalogs like CiteSeer, CrossRef, Google Scholar, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE, Medline/PubMed, MathSciNet, Springer, arXiv, and zbMATH
for over 15 reference formats
Easily retrieve and link full-text articles
such as ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID
Import new references directly from the browser with one click using the for , , and
using a convenient user interface
your research into hierarchical collections and organize research items based on keywords/tags, search terms or your manual assignments
by comparing with curated online catalogs such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet
Customize and add new metadata fields or reference types
, automatically if you wish
: 20 different kinds of documents supported out of the box, completely customizable and extendable
Automatically rename and move associated documents according to customizable rules
: relevancy, ranking, priority, printed, quality-assured, read status
Format references in one of the many thousand built-in citation styles or create your style
Native
for external applications such as Emacs, Kile, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim and WinEdt
Support for and for inserting and formatting citations
or
Library is saved as a simple text file, and thus it is easy to e.g. via Dropbox and is version-control friendly
Work in a team: sync the contents of your library
JabRef is and adapts to you, not the other way around.
If you want to dive even deeper, have a look at the about JabRef.
JabRef is developed and maintained by a multidisciplinary of PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in industry who work on JabRef in their freetime. Without the support of numerous volunteers, none of this would have been possible.