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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.

JabRef is available free of charge and is actively developed.It supports you in every step of your research work.

• 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 theofficial browser extension forFirefox,Chrome,Edge, andVivaldi

• 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

• 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

• 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

Fresh development builds are available atbuilds.jabref.org.Thelatest stable release is available at FossHub.

Please see ourInstallation Guide.

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 inthe feature section of our forum!If you need support in using JabRef, please readthe documentation first, thefrequently asked questions (FAQ) and also have a look at ourcommunity forum.You can use ourGitHub issue tracker to file bug reports.

An explanation of donation possibilities and usage of donations is available at ourdonations page.

Want to be part of a free and open-source project that tens of thousands of researchers use every day?Check out the ways you can contribute, below:

• Please have a look at ourguidelines for contributing.
• Make sure to follow ourstep-by-step guide on how to set-up your workspace.
• For a quick overview of the architecture, check out ourhigh-level documentation.
• You are welcome to fix bugs, contribute new features or add documentation. To get your contribution included into JabRef, justfork the JabRef repository, make your changes, and submit apull request.
• To work on existing JabRef issues, check out ourissue tracker. New to open source contributing? Look for issues with the"good first issue" label to get started.
• Not a programmer? Help translating JabRef atCrowdin or improve the user documentation. Learn how to help atcontribute.jabref.org.
• To report an issue, request a feature or suggest enhancements, please open an issue at ourissues page.

We useGitHub Actions for executing the tests after each commit.For developing, it is sufficient to only run the associated test locally (see examplehere) for the classes you changed.GitHub will report any other failure. To find solutions to the most common errors that lead to such failures, check ourFAQ page.

We view pull requests as a collaborative process.Submit a pull request early to get feedback from the team on work in progress.We will discuss improvements with you and agree to merge them once thedevelopers approve.Please also remember to discuss bigger changes early with the core developers to ensure properly spend time and work.Some fundamental design decisions can be found within our list ofArchitectural Decision Records.

JabRef welcomes research applied to it.The current list of papers where JabRef helped to enhance science is maintained athttps://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 athttps://devdocs.jabref.org/teaching.html.

When citing JabRef, please use following citation:

@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 includesfull text):10.47397/tb/44-3/tb138kopp-jabref.

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