JabRef 5.9

JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.

Stay on top of your literature: JabRef helps you to collect and organize sources, find the paper you need and discover the latest research.

Collect

• Search across many online scientific catalogues like CiteSeer, CrossRef, Google Scholar, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE-HEP, Medline PubMed, MathSciNet, Springer, arXiv, and zbMATH
• Import options for over 15 reference formats
• Easily retrieve and link full-text articles
• Fetch complete bibliographic information based on ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID
• Extract metadata from PDFs
• Import new references directly from the browser with one click using the official browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Vivaldi

Organize

• Group your research into hierarchical collections and organize research items based on keywords/tags, search terms or your manual assignments
• Advanced search and filter features
• Complete and fix bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogues such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet
• Customizable citation key generator
• Customize and add new metadata fields or reference types
• Find and merge duplicates
• 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
• Keep track of what you read: ranking, priority, printed, quality-assured

Cite

• Native BibTeX and Biblatex support
• 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
• Support for Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice for inserting and formatting citations

Share

• Many built-in export options or create your export format
• Library is saved as a simple text file and thus it is easy to share with others via Dropbox and is version-control friendly
• Work in a team: sync the contents of your library via a SQL database