jabref
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases
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Repository
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: JabRef
- License: mit
- Language: Java
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://www.jabref.org
- Size: 240 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 4,005
- Watchers: 112
- Forks: 2,914
- Open Issues: 578
- Releases: 45
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Metadata Files
README.md
JabRef Bibliography Management 
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.
Features
JabRef is available free of charge and is actively developed. It supports you in every step of your research work.
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 catalogs 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 using one of thousands of built-in citation styles or create your own 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
Installation
Fresh development builds are available at builds.jabref.org. The latest stable release is available at FossHub.
Please see our Installation Guide.
JabKit
JabRef offers a CLI application.
You can run it using JBang.
We provide details at .jbang/README.md.
You can also run JabKit using docker:
terminal
docker run ghcr.io/jabref/jabkit:edge --help
Bug Reports, Suggestions, Other Feedback
We are thankful for any bug reports or other feedback. If you have ideas for new features you want to be included in JabRef, tell us in the feature section of our forum! If you need support in using JabRef, please read the user documentation, especially the frequently asked questions (FAQ) and also take a look at our community forum. You can use our GitHub issue tracker to file bug reports.
An explanation of donation possibilities and usage of donations is available at our donations page.
Contributing
Want to be part of a free and open-source project that tens of thousands of researchers use every day? Please take a look at our guidelines for contributing.
Building from Source
Please see Building from source for instructions on how to build JabRef from sources.
Research and Education
JabRef welcomes research applied to it. The current list of papers where JabRef helped to enhance science is maintained at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/JabRef-in-the-Media.
The JabRef team also fosters to use JabRef in Software Engineering training. We offer guidelines for this at https://devdocs.jabref.org/teaching.html.
When citing JabRef, please use the following citation:
bibtex
@Article{jabref,
author = {Oliver Kopp and Carl Christian Snethlage and Christoph Schwentker},
title = {JabRef: BibTeX-based literature management software},
journal = {TUGboat},
volume = {44},
number = {3},
pages = {441--447},
doi = {10.47397/tb/44-3/tb138kopp-jabref},
issn = {0896-3207},
issue = {138},
year = {2023},
}
DOI (also includes full text): 10.47397/tb/44-3/tb138kopp-jabref.
Sponsoring
JabRef development is powered by YourKit Java Profiler
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Owner
- Name: JabRef e.V.
- Login: JabRef
- Kind: organization
- Location: Sindelfingen, Germany
- Website: https://www.jabref.org
- Twitter: jabref_org
- Repositories: 45
- Profile: https://github.com/JabRef
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 818
- Total pull requests: 3,001
- Average time to close issues: 8 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 8 days
- Total issue authors: 243
- Total pull request authors: 369
- Average comments per issue: 5.59
- Average comments per pull request: 2.3
- Merged pull requests: 2,161
- Bot issues: 4
- Bot pull requests: 747
Past Year
- Issues: 366
- Pull requests: 2,130
- Average time to close issues: 18 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 4 days
- Issue authors: 96
- Pull request authors: 231
- Average comments per issue: 3.04
- Average comments per pull request: 2.41
- Merged pull requests: 1,515
- Bot issues: 4
- Bot pull requests: 534
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- koppor (210)
- Siedlerchr (42)
- ThiloteE (35)
- ilippert (34)
- InAnYan (28)
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- ryan-carpenter (25)
- subhramit (15)
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- ghost (12)
- ror3d (11)
- claell (10)
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Pull Request Authors
- dependabot[bot] (744)
- koppor (672)
- Siedlerchr (365)
- subhramit (137)
- InAnYan (71)
- LoayGhreeb (64)
- calixtus (48)
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Total dependent repositories: 0
(may contain duplicates) - Total versions: 8
proxy.golang.org: github.com/jabref/jabref
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jabref/jabref#section-documentation
- License: mit
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Latest release: v4.3.1+incompatible
published over 7 years ago
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proxy.golang.org: github.com/JabRef/jabref
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/JabRef/jabref#section-documentation
- License: mit
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Latest release: v4.3.1+incompatible
published over 7 years ago