JabRef
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  • JabRef Bibliography Management
  • Installation
  • Getting started
  • Collect
    • Add entry manually
    • Add entry using an ID
    • Add entry using reference text
    • Searching externally using Online Services
    • Add entry using PDFs
    • Add PDFs to an entry
    • Browser Extension
    • Import
      • Custom import filters
      • Import inspection window
  • Organize
    • Edit an entry
    • Groups
    • Keywords
    • Mark and grade
    • Comment on an entry
    • Searching within the library
    • Complete information using online databases
    • Manage associated files
    • Manage field names and their content
    • Best practices
    • Cleanup entries
    • Check integrity
    • Find duplicates
    • Merge entries
    • Save actions
  • Cite
    • BibTeX and biblatex
    • Pushing to external editor application
    • Export to Microsoft Word
    • OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration
  • Share
    • Sharing a Bib(la)TeX Library
    • Shared SQL Database
      • Migration of pre-3.6 SQL databases into a shared SQL database
    • Export
      • Custom export filters
    • Send as email
  • AI functionality
    • AI providers and API keys
    • AI preferences
    • AI troubleshooting
    • Running a local LLM model
  • Configuration
    • Customize the citation key generator
    • Customize entry types
    • Customize general fields
    • Customize key bindings
    • Library properties
    • Entry preview setup
    • Manage external file types
    • Manage protected terms
    • The string editor
  • Advanced information
    • Main Window
    • Entry Editor
      • Links to other entries
      • The Bibtex / Biblatex source tab
      • The 'owner' field
      • Time stamp field
      • LaTeX Citations Tab
    • About BibTeX and its fields
    • Strings
    • Field content selector
    • URL and DOI links in JabRef
    • Command line use and options
    • Automatic Backup (.sav and .bak) and Autosave
    • XMP metadata support in JabRef
    • Remote operation
    • Custom themes
    • Journal abbreviations
    • New subdatabase based on AUX file
    • How to expand first names of an entry
    • Debugging your library file
    • Resources
    • License
    • Knowledge
      • MS Office Bibliography XML format
      • Comparison of the Medline (txt), Medline (xml), and RIS format
      • EndNote Export Filter
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Linux
    • Mac OS X
    • Windows
  • Discussion Forum
  • Contribute to JabRef
    • How to Improve the Help Page
    • How to translate the JabRef User Interface
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JabRef can fetch automatically additional information about your entries. It can even get the publication file!​

  • To find identifiers (arxiv, DOI)_: select the entries and go to the menu Lookup → search document identifier online.​

  • To find the DOI: open the , and in the General tab, click on the button Lookup DOI.

  • To find the document related to an entry: select the entry and to the menu .​

Be aware: The options above require your entry or entries to be filled with enough and correct bibliographic information. If the entry holds incomplete or inaccurate data, fetching the identifier or text document my fail.

Completing information based on DOI or ISBN

JabRef can help you complement your entries with bibliographic data, which is associated with their registered DOI or ISBN. This is a very reliable way of obtaining correct bibliographic information and is very much recommended.

The following features require your entry to have a DOI or ISBN and are disabled / greyed out otherwise.

  • Option A) In the entry table, right-click on the entry to complement, and select the menu Get bibliographic data from DOI/ISBN/...

  • Option B) Open the , and in the General tab, click on the button Get bibliographic data from DOI

Using any of the options opens the window Merge entries:

There it is possible to choose what is kept for each field: the left side, the right side, or the merged entry. By default, the original entry (left) is kept, and any fields not present in the original entry are obtained from the information collected from the DOI.

Finally, after selecting which fields to keep, you can decide to Merge entries. Alternatively, you can press Cancel.

See also: ,

Find duplicates
Merge entries
entry editor
Lookup → search full text documents online
entry editor