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  • JabRef Bibliography Management
  • General information about JabRef
    • Entry Editor
    • Best Practices
    • Command line use and options
    • Automatic Backup (.sav and .bak) and Autosave
    • Remote operation
    • Installation
  • About BibTeX and its fields
    • URL and DOI links in JabRef
    • File links in JabRef
    • Links to other entries
    • The 'owner' field
    • Time stamped fileds
    • Journal abbreviations
    • Special Fields
    • Set/clear/rename fields
    • Field content selector
    • Strings
  • Finding, Sorting, and Cleaning Entries
    • Searching within the library
    • Searching externally using Online Services
      • ACM Portal
      • arXiv
      • CiteSeerX
      • DBLP
      • DOAJ
      • Google Scholar
      • GVK
      • IEEEXplore
      • INSPIRE-HEP
      • MathSciNet
      • MEDLINE
      • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
      • Springer
      • Unpaywall
      • zbMATH
    • Searching externally using Publication Identifiers
      • DiVA
      • DOI -- Digital Object Identifier
      • IACR eprint IDs
      • ISBN number
      • Medline
      • RFC document
      • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
      • Title of the paper
    • Add unlinked PDFs including BibTeX data into the database
    • Synchronize file links
    • Cleanup entries
    • Save actions
    • Check integrity
    • Get BibTeX data from DOI
    • Find duplicates
    • Merge entries
    • Groups
    • Replace string
  • Import and Export
    • Import
      • JabRef Browser Extension
      • Custom import filters
      • Import from Microsoft Word -- MS Office Bibliography XML format
      • Import inspection window
      • New subdatabase based on AUX file
      • New entry from plain text
    • Export
      • Custom export filters
      • EndNote Export Filter
      • Export to an External SQL Database
      • Export to Microsoft Word -- MS Office Bibliography XML format
    • Other integrations
      • LaTeX Citations Tab
      • OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration
      • Pushing to external editor application
      • XMP metadata support in JabRef
    • Knowledge
      • Comparison of the Medline (txt), Medline (XML), and RIS format
  • Collaborative Work
    • Sharing a Bib(La)TeX Database
    • Shared SQL Database
    • Migration of pre-3.6 SQL databases into a shared SQL database
  • Configuration of JabRef
    • Customize the BibTeX key generator
    • Customize entry types
    • Customize general fields
    • Customize key bindings
    • Database properties window
    • Entry preview setup
    • Manage external file types
    • Manage protected terms
    • The string editor
  • Frequently Asked Questions and Howtos
    • General FAQs
    • Contributing
    • Sharing
    • How Tos
      • How to expand first names of a BibTeX entry
      • How to Improve the Help Page
      • How to translate the JabRef User Interface
    • FAQs on Operating Systems
      • Linux
      • Mac OS X
      • Windows
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Import inspection window

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Import inspection window

Purpose

When you import new entries from a supported reference format, or fetch entries directly from the Internet, the inspection window allows you to select the entries you want to keep, to , and to perform some simple operations like generating BibTeX keys for the entries, or adding them to . If you are importing into an existing database, it is often easier to perform these operations before they are mixed in between the entries of your database.

The inspection window

Entries are first shown in the inspection window. Note that, if this takes too long (for example), you can click on the button Stop at the bottom of the window.

Once the entries displayed in the inspection window, none of them have been added to one of your databases yet.

By default, all the entries are selected for importation, as shown by the checked boxes in the Keep column. You can select/unselect an entry by clicking on these check boxes. On the left panel, buttons allow you to Select all the entries for importation, or to Deselect all the entries.

A left click on an entry (out of the check box and icons) let you choose it. It displays an preview of the entry below the entry table. As usual, you can choose several entries by using the Shift or the Ctrl keys. Then, pushing the button Delete on the left panel will remove the chosen entries from the table.

A right click on an entry displays a drop-down menu which allows you to:

  • delete the entry

  • add the entry to a group

  • link a local file to the entry

  • download the file corresponding to the entry

  • automatically set file links to the entry

  • attach an URL to the entry

Duplicated entries

BibTeX key generation

On the left panel, if the box Generate keys is checked, keys will be automatically generated on import. You can also choose to generate the keys now by clicking on the button Generate now.

Importation into the database

Once you are done with the entry selection, you can add these entries to your database by clicking on OK at the bottom of the window. Alternatively, you can Cancel the import.

Potential duplicates are pointed out by an icon in the second column. A click on this icon allows you to . A button on the left panel allows you to Deselect all duplicates (without inspection).

check the similarities
avoid adding duplicated entries
groups
Screenshot of the inspection window