JabRef 5.12 – Citation and reference management — collect, organize, search bibliographic information.

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

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

Added

We added a scite.ai tab in the entry editor that retrieves ‘Smart Citation’ tallies for citations that have a DOI. koppor#375
We added a dropdown menu to let users change the reference library during AUX file import. #10472
We added a button to let users reset the cite command to the default value. #10569
We added the option to use System Preference for Light/Dark Theme #8729.
We added scholar.archive.org as a new fetcher. #10498
We integrated predatory journal checking as part of the Integrity Checker based on the check-bib-for-predatory. koppor#348
We added a ‘More options’ section in the main table right click menu opening the preferences dialog. #9432
When creating a new group, it inherits the icon of the parent group. #10521

Changed

We moved the location of the ‘Open only one instance of JabRef’ preference option from “Network” to “General”. #9306
The two previews in the change resolver dialog now have their scrollbars synchronized. #9576.
We changed the setting of the keyword separator to accept a single character only. #177
We replaced “SearchAll” in Web Search by “Search Selected”. #10556
Short DOI formatter now checks, if the value is already formatted. If so, it returns the value instead of calling the ShortDOIService again. #10589
We upgraded to JavaFX 21.0.1. As a consequence JabRef requires now macOS 11 or later and GTK 3.8 or later on Linux 10627.
A user-specific comment fields is not enabled by default, but can be enabled using the “Add” button. #10424
We upgraded to Lucene 9.9 for the fulltext search. The search index will be rebuild. #10686
When using “Copy…” -> “Copy citation key”, the delimiter configured at “Push applications” is respected. #10707

Fixed

We fixed an issue where the added protected term has unwanted leading and trailing whitespaces, where the formatted text has unwanted empty brackets and where the word at the cursor in the textbox can be added to the list. #10415
We fixed an issue where in the merge dialog the file field of entries was not correctly merged when the first and second entry both contained values inside the file field. #10572
We fixed some small inconsistencies in the user interface. #10507 #10458 #10660
We fixed the issue where the Hayagriva YAML exporter would not include a parent field for the publisher/series. #10596
We fixed issues in the external file type dialog w.r.t. duplicate entries in the case of a language switch. #10271
We fixed an issue where the right-click action “Copy cite…” did not respect the configured citation command under “External Programs” -> “Push Applications” #10615