JabRef
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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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Entries can be created from a reference text.

In case you have a reference string, JabRef offers the functionality to convert the text to BibTeX. Thereby, JabRef uses the technology offered by .

Example:

O. Kopp, A. Armbruster, und O. Zimmermann, "Markdown Architectural Decision Records: Format and Tool Support", in 10th ZEUS Workshop, 2018.
  1. Click Library and select "New entry from plain text..." Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+N.

  2. The "Plain Reference Parser" window opens

  3. Paste the reference text:

  4. Click "Add to current library"

  5. The result is selected in the entry table:

JabRef 4.x

JabRef thereby used the service offered by . This servce was shut down in 2019. The following explanations are only for historical interest.

  1. Click BibTeX and select "New entry from plain text..." Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+N.

  2. Select an entry type. Select "InProceedings", this works in the most cases

  3. The "Plain text import" window opens

  4. Paste the entry using the middle button "paste"

  5. Click on "Parse with FreeCite"

  6. The entry editor opens with the parsed result:

    Do your corrections there.

Manual way

After step 4 from above, you can manually assign the types to each text.

  • Select the text

  • Double click on the type at the right side at "Available BibTeX fields"

After you finished, you can press "Accept".

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