JabRef for Windows is a bibliographic information management software using BibTeX as a native format. JabRef has a user-friendly interface for editing BibTeX files, importing data from online scientific databases, and searching and managing BibTeX files. JabRef can be extended with additional free tools, such as a browser add-on extracting bibliographic information from websites.

Primary features

• Fully compatible with BibTeX;

• Full-text search of entire bibliography;

• Import various formats, such as BibTeXML, CSA, Refer/Endnote, Web of Knowledge, SilverPlatter, Medline/Pubmed (XML), Scifinder, OVID, INSPEC, Biblioscape, Sixpack, JStor, and RIS;

• Export in various formats, such as HTML, Docbook, BibTeXML, MODS, RTF, Refer/Endnote, and OpenOffice.org;

• Grouping by any BibTeX fields and keywords;

• Integration with a desktop environment: launching PDF/PS viewers, a browser, inserting citations in LyX, Kile, LatexEDitor, Emacs, Vim, WinEdt, and OpenOffice.org;

• Plugin support;

• Automatic creation of BibTeX keys;

• Search in Medline, Citeseer, IEEEXplore, and arXiv.org.

Program advantages

JabRef has a user-friendly interface and various settings and uses BibTex (a format for creating formatted bibliography lists) as an internal format. Creating your list of bibliographic references, a database with the desired list of references using one of the available templates, is supported.

JabRef supports attachments of any type for bibliographical references (according to the structure and rules of the format). The number of branches is limited only by available disc space. A full-text search of the entire bibliography and merging of duplicates is implemented, sorting of references in the list is supported, and automatic creation of BibText keys is provided.

Who should install this program?

JabRef for Windows is a bibliographic information management system. Reference management software allows researchers, scientists, and writers to create and reuse bibliographic references. After referring, it is used to create a bibliography (information infrastructure), a list of bibliographical references in scientific articles, monographs, books, etc.

The rapid growth of scientific literature causes the active development of bibliographic information management systems. Modern bibliographic information management systems can integrate with word processors to create a list of references in the selected format and add them to the document. Integration does not allow you to forget to include a reference to the source cited in the text. Such systems support the import and export of bibliographical references from bibliographic databases.