Downloadable journal lists

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JabRef journal abbreviation lists

JabRef can help you refactor your reference list by automatically abbreviating or unabbreviating journal names. This requires that you keep one or more lists of journal names and their respective abbreviations. to set up these lists, choose Options -> Manage journal abbreviations.

Downloadable journal lists

JabRef includes no list of journals by default. Instead, the management window allows you to edit a personal list of journals, and to reference one or more external lists. To make this process more efficient for you, we offer a couple of lists from this web page, which can be downloaded by clicking a Download button in the External files section of the management window and entering the correct URL. You will then be asked to provide a local filename for the list.

The download URL defaults to the general list linked below, which is a large list of journals, not limited to a single subject area. In addition there are (or will be) other, smaller, lists that contain journals from specific fields. To get one of these, just copy the URL from one of the links below, click Download in JabRef, and paste the URL into the query dialog that appears.

Contribution to journal abbreviation lists

We want to expand both the general list and the selection of smaller lists, so if you have set up a representative list for your own subject area, we would appreciate it if you share your list by opening a new entry in our Patches section on SourceForge. You can either add your list as an attachment to the patch entry, or keep the list on you own home page and link to it. We will then add your list to this page.

Export filters

JabRef allows you to create custom export filters. This functionality is described in the help file on Custom export filters. Some users have created export filters that can be useful to many others, and on this page we provide links or direct downloads for some of these export filters.

If you have created one or more export filters that you want to share with other users, please notify us, and we can provide a download from this page, or link to your own page.

Mark Schenk's HTML export filters

Mark Schenk's HTML export filters provide HTML listings of your reference list. The exported HTML comes complete with scripts for quick filtering of the list. Note: some of Mark Schenk's filters are distributed with JabRef as standard export filters.

Marten Kooiker's RTF export filters

Marten Kooiker has put together a number of export filters outputting RTF references formatted for specific journals.

Download filters