JabRef for Mac
Citation and reference management — collect, organize, search bibliographic information.
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JabRef overview
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:
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
What’s new in version 5.15
Added
- We made new groups automatically to focus upon creation. #11449
Fixed
- We fixed an issue where JabRef was no longer built for Intel based macs (x86) #11468
- We fixed usage when using running on Snapcraft. #11465
- We fixed detection for soffice.exe on Windows. #11478
- We fixed an issue where saving preferences when importing preferences on first run in a snap did not work forum#4399
JabRef for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.15
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Sep 3 2013
Version: 2.9.2
Using OS 10.8.4 on an iMac and a MacbookPro with Safari 6.0.5 I have repeatedly downloaded JabRef 2.9.2, and 2.9, from MacUpdate and from SourceForge, and always when I try to run it gives the message that it is damaged and must be trashed. I am sure that if I could run it I could give a good rating, but I cannot run it.
