About
JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
BibTeX is an application and a bibliography file format written by Oren Patashnik and Leslie Lamport for the LaTeX document preparation system. General information about BibTeX.
Bibliographies generated by LaTeX and BibTeX from a BibTeX file can be formatted to suit any reference list specifications through the use of different BibTeX style files. We support this initiative to build a searchable database of BibTeX style files, organized by journal names: LaTeX bibliography style database.
You can run JabRef instantly with Java Web Start: Run JabRef.
Features
- Advanced BibTeX editor
- Detailed editing of BibTeX entries.
- Search functions
- Search a pattern in the whole bibliography.
- Classification of entries
- You can group entries explicitly, by keywords or any other fields.
- Import of various formats
- BibTeXML, CSA, Refer/Endnote, ISI Web of Science, SilverPlatter, Medline/Pubmed (xml), Scifinder, OVID, INSPEC, Biblioscape, Sixpack, JStor and RIS.
- Built-in and custom export formats
- HTML, Docbook, BibTeXML, MODS, RTF, Refer/Endnote and OpenOffice.org.
- Customization of BibTeX fields
- You can add your own fields to any BibTeX entry type.
- Customization of the JabRef interface
- Fonts, displayed fields, etc
- Integrates to your environment
- Launch external applications: PDF/PS viewers, web browser, insert citations into LyX, Kile and WinEdt
- Automatic Key generation
- Search Medline, Citeseer, IEEEXplore and arXiv
- Support for XMP Metadata in PDFs
- Improve the workflow of sharing PDFs and bibliography information