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<h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>JabRef supports <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> and <a href="/facts/Mac_OS_X/Y93vVpTm">Mac OS X</a>, it is available free of charge and is actively developed. </p> <h3>Collection</h3> <ul><li>Import options for over 15 reference formats.</li> <li>Extraction of metadata from PDFs.</li> <li>Retrieval of articles and bibliographic information based on identifiers (<a href="/facts/ArXiv/H6EtgnBe">arXiv</a>, <a href="/facts/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/NqePUljt">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a>, <a href="/facts/CrossRef/htqCmrbm">CrossRef</a>, <a href="/facts/DiVA_(open_archive)/81Ke2SH5">DiVA</a>, <a href="/facts/Digital_object_identifier/muM9Etpq">DOI</a>, <a href="/facts/International_Association_for_Cryptologic_Research/TgVIMDmb">IACR eprints</a>, <a href="/facts/ISBN/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a>, <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a>, <a href="/facts/MathSciNet/AECHqaas">MathSciNet</a>, mEDRA, <a href="/facts/PubMed/JlHAvMHt">PubMed</a>, <a href="/facts/Request_for_Comments/esftTvE7">RFC</a>, <a href="/facts/Astrophysics_Data_System/abKVsgvU">SAO/NASA ADS</a>, and <a href="/facts/ZbMATH/P6rFxKKx">zbMATH</a>).</li> <li>Support for the online scientific catalogues of <a href="/facts/ACM_Portal/abI2atlP">ACM Portal</a>, <a href="/facts/ArXiv/H6EtgnBe">arXiv</a>, <a href="/facts/CiteSeer/SceDmd3c">CiteSeer</a>, <a href="/facts/Collection_of_Computer_Science_Bibliographies/qchlm21Y">Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies</a>, <a href="/facts/CrossRef/htqCmrbm">CrossRef</a>, <a href="/facts/DBLP/JLAIuLQQ">DBLP</a>, <a href="/facts/DOAJ/t6kTdQuX">DOAJ</a>, GVK, <a href="/facts/IEEE/UddC4pUW">IEEEXplore</a>, <a href="/facts/INSPIRE-HEP/CDEYl9E1">INSPIRE-HEP</a>, <a href="/facts/MathSciNet/AECHqaas">MathSciNet</a>, <a href="/facts/Medline/B8F9Ajqx">Medline</a>, <a href="/facts/Astrophysics_Data_System/abKVsgvU">SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System</a>, <a href="/facts/Springer_Publishing/JfRev59b">Springer</a>, and <a href="/facts/ZbMATH/P6rFxKKx">zbMATH</a>.</li> <li>Browser based reference importing with the JabFox add-on for <a href="/facts/Google_Chrome/4INfWq37">Chrome</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Edge/BGoJEFX9">Edge</a>, <a href="/facts/Firefox/xez2zv8H">Firefox</a> and <a href="/facts/Vivaldi_(web_browser)/RGkUfY7Y">Vivaldi</a>.</li></ul> <h3>Organization</h3> <ul><li>Supports hierarchical groupings based on keywords, tags, search terms <i>etc</i>.</li> <li>Includes features for searching, filtering and detecting duplicates.</li> <li>Attempts to complete partial bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogues such as <a href="/facts/Google_Scholar/FhEwS2QM">Google Scholar</a>, <a href="/facts/Springer_Publishing/JfRev59b">Springer</a> or <a href="/facts/MathSciNet/AECHqaas">MathSciNet</a>.</li> <li>Citation keys, metadata fields and file renaming rules are customizable.</li></ul> <h3>Interoperability</h3> <ul><li>Thousands of citation styles are built-in.</li> <li>Cite-as-you-write functionality for external applications such as <a href="/facts/Emacs/BvGxuAxQ">Emacs</a>, <a href="/facts/Kile/xbyxDSFW">Kile</a>, <a href="/facts/LyX/dSrv830u">LyX</a>, <a href="/facts/Texmaker/TQUphpUt">Texmaker</a>, <a href="/facts/TeXstudio/P1fsKlE2">TeXstudio</a>, <a href="/facts/Vim_(text_editor)/JXAYMDgt">Vim</a> and <a href="/facts/WinEdt/9ncUcHfH">WinEdt</a>.</li> <li>Support for Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice for inserting and formatting citations.</li> <li>Library is saved as a human readable text file.</li> <li>When editing in a group, the library can be synchronized with a SQL database.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_reference_management_software/e1pVVElY">Comparison of reference management software</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.jabref.org/">JabRef website</a></li> <li><a href="http://keijisaito.info/arc/biblio/en_jabref_bibtex.htm">BibTeX Management by JabRef and Jab2HTML</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/perl/index.html">How to use JabRef (BibTeX) with Microsoft Word 2003 (current)</a> <a href="http://www.medicalnerds.com/how-to-use-jabrefbibtex-with-microsoft-word-2003/">(old)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.markschenk.com/tools/jabref/">JabRef HTML Export Filters</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"The relationship of code churn and architectural violations in the open source software JabRef | Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings". 2017: 152–158. doi:10.1145/3129790.3129810. S2CID 32372358. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) <a href="http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68408" target="_blank">http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68408</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Basak, Sujit Kumar (2014). "Reference Management Software: A Comparative Analysis of JabRef and RefWorks" (PDF). Int'l Conf. On Chemical Engineering & Advanced Computational Technologies. <a href="http://iieng.org/images/proceedings_pdf/4330E1114002.pdf" target="_blank">http://iieng.org/images/proceedings_pdf/4330E1114002.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"BibTex and LaTex: JabRef". Library of University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2019-06-06. <a href="https://libguides.usask.ca/c.php?g=218034&p=1440031" target="_blank">https://libguides.usask.ca/c.php?g=218034&p=1440031</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"JabRef and LateX". The Library of the Melbourne University. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2019-06-06. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211006092114/https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=565734&p=3897117" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20211006092114/https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=565734&p=3897117</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Feyer, S.; Siebert, S.; Gipp, B.; Aizawa, A.; Beel, J. (2017). "Integration of the Scientific Recommender System Mr. DLib into the Reference Manager JabRef". In Jose, Joemon M; Hauff, Claudia; Altıngovde, Ismail Sengor; Song, Dawei; Albakour, Dyaa; Watt, Stuart; Tait, John (eds.). Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 10193. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 770–774. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_80. ISBN 978-3-319-56608-5. <a href="978-3-319-56608-5" target="_blank">978-3-319-56608-5</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Beel, Joeran (2013-11-11). "On the popularity of reference managers, and their rise and fall | | Prof. Joeran Beel (TCD Dublin)". Archived from the original on 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-11. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200627084808/https://www.scss.tcd.ie/joeran.beel/blog/2013/11/11/on-the-popularity-of-reference-managers-and-their-rise-and-fall/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200627084808/https://www.scss.tcd.ie/joeran.beel/blog/2013/11/11/on-the-popularity-of-reference-managers-and-their-rise-and-fall/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"History of JabRef". Retrieved 2011-12-30. <a href="http://jabref.sourceforge.net/revisionhistory.php" target="_blank">http://jabref.sourceforge.net/revisionhistory.php</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>