BibDesk is a powerful and easy-to-use bibliography management software that allows you to build, organize, store and share your research sources. It can help you find new research materials and manage your library of references. With BibDesk, you can create a bibliography by importing contacts from different sources. Then, you can use built-in tools to format citations and add annotations to each entry in your bibliography. The application lets you search through the database with just a few clicks.

BibDesk is free and open-source software still under active development by a team of volunteers. The app was initially developed for Mac users, and the current version, 1.8.13, supports OS X 10.9 and above.

Features

BibDesk offers to manage, search, import, and export features that are designed to make it easier for you to create and manage bibliographies:

• With BibDesk's reference manager, you can record, store and organize the basic facts about a publication: its author, title, date of publication, publisher name, and address (URL where appropriate), but more complicated items such as abstracts or links to web pages. You can set BibDesk to move and automatically rename files for you.

• BibDesk's search field lets you instantly find any entries that contain the words or phrases you type into it. Advanced options allow you to search all the PDF files associated with your bibliography entries and set up 'smart groups' so that publications matching specific keywords are always shown.

• BibDesk allows you to import all kinds of bibliographic information into your database: from simple text files and rich BibTEX and RIS files, which you may already have or can download from many scientific websites. More advanced features include the ability to search for and collect information from online resources and direct access using protocols like Z39.50 or Entrez when searching catalogs of libraries or other publication sites.

• BibDesk helps you share and publish your bibliographic information by exporting it to standard bibliographic formats, such as RIS, BibTeX, or EndNote. It also creates PDF files and copies rich text that can be pasted into other documents. In addition to native integration with most LATEX editors, many user-contributed scripts make a wide range of bibliographic chores easy.

• BibDesk's online collaboration features allow you to share your bibliography with colleagues and generate HTML or RSS feeds for the whole team.

Conclusions

BibDesk is a powerful yet easy-to-use bibliographic management tool for Mac users. It allows you to manage your bibliography using all the features you need, including full integration with many popular LATEX editors and a wide range of user-contributed scripts that makes most bibliographic chores easy.