This is why we develop JabRef as free open-source software and save your data in a simple text-based file format with no vendor lock-in. Created by researchers, for researchers. JabRef is developed and maintained by a multidisciplinary core team of PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in industry who work on JabRef in their free time.

JabRef can be either installed (the preferred way) or be used as a portable application. Installation instructions To get the latest version, head to , download the installer for your system (e.g., dmg files for MacOS and msi files for Windows), run them and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you want to start writing your own papers, articles or thesis, you might find some helpful information on how to use JabRef for citing your collected references from your library:

If you want to dive even deeper, have a look at the about JabRef. JabRef is developed and maintained by a multidisciplinary of PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in industry who work on JabRef in their freetime.

In a nutshell, you clone the latest snapshot of JabRef into jabref directory, change directory to jabref, initialize and update all the submodules (dependencies) of JabRef, assemble them to be built via JDK 13, and finally build and link them together.

JabRef offers an official browser extension. It automatically identifies and extracts bibliographic information on websites and sends them to JabRef with one click. When you find an interesting article through Google Scholar, the arXiv or journal websites, this browser extension allows you to add those references to JabRef.

Jan 26, 2022 · Thanks to a new LaTeX package, it is now possible to use CSL files within LaTeX documents to format your bibliography. So, from now on, you may use the exact same style in JabRef and in LaTeX. Here is the package repository …

JabRef program uses no separate internal file format but directly works with BibTeX and biblatex. That means, your BibTeX/biblatex file is kept as is when opening in JabRef and saving again: You normally load and save your libraries directly in the BibTeX/biblatex .bib format.

JabRef can fetch automatically additional information about your entries. It can even get the publication file!

In case you have a reference string, JabRef offers the functionality to convert the text to BibTeX (or biblatex). Different parsers will lead to different results. It is strongly recommended to fact-check all conversions, regardless of parser choice.