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Best practices

How JabRef can make your life easier

Helpful groups

  • Group for your own papers: author=YOURSELF

  • Group for the papers of your team: author=YOURSELF and author=COLLEAGUE1 and author=COLLEAGUE2

Groups
/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/groups

Sort order

Library → Library properties.

Library properties window
/setup/databaseproperties

Use integrity check often

Use Quality → Check integrity often to ensure that the quality of your database does not degrade.

Check integrity
/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/checkintegrity

Enable save actions

To ensure that your library stays consistent, specify your save actions in Library → Library properties.

Save actions
/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/saveactions
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