JabRef


JabRef is an open-sourced, cross-platform citation and reference management software. It uses BibTeX and BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for LaTeX. The name JabRef stands for Java, Alver, Batada, Reference. The original version was released on November 29, 2003.
JabRef provides an interface for editing BibTeX files, for importing data from online scientific databases, and for managing and searching BibTeX files. JabRef has been released under the terms of MIT license since version 3.6. JabRef has a target audience of academics and many university libraries have written guides on its usage.

Features

The application is programmed in Java, and is maintained for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, it is available free of charge and is actively developed.

Collection

Fresh development builds are available at and the . For Unix-like operating systems, it is also common for JabRef to be available through the default package manager. On Windows, JabRef offers an installer which also creates shortcuts for running the JAR file.
JabRef runs on any system equipped with the Java Virtual Machine but Java 9 is currently not supported. From JabRef 4.0 onwards, JavaFX support has to be installed.

Dependencies

Since version 3.6, JabRef is licensed under the MIT license. JabRef libraries, fonts and icons distributed under different licenses by the JavaFX, PDFBox, OpenOffice.org, Jakarta, Apache Tika, Apache Commons, JSoup, ANTLR and Google Guava projects.