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JabRef Bibliography Management
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 reference management tool.
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.
- Search across many online scientific catalogs like CiteSeer, CrossRef, Google Scholar, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE, Medline/PubMed, MathSciNet, Springer, arXiv, and zbMATH
- Easily retrieve and link full-text articles
- Fetch complete bibliographic information based on identifiers such as ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID
- Import new references directly from the browser with one click using the official browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Vivaldi
- Group your research into hierarchical collections and organize research items based on keywords/tags, search terms or your manual assignments
- Complete and fix bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogs such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet
- Customize and add new metadata fields or reference types
- Attach related documents: 20 different kinds of documents supported out of the box, completely customizable and extendable
- Automatically rename and move associated documents according to customizable rules
- Cite-as-you-write functionality for external applications such as Emacs, Kile, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim and WinEdt
- Format references in one of the many thousand built-in citation styles or create your style
- Library is saved as a simple text file, and thus it is easy to share with others e.g. via Dropbox and is version-control friendly
JabRef is developed and maintained by a multidisciplinary core team 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. We welcome anyone who would like to contribute to be part of an active user and developer community!
Last modified 23d ago