JabRef explained

JabRef
Author:	Morten O. Alver, Nizar N. Batada, et al.
Developer:	The JabRef team^[1]
Programming Language:	Java
Operating System:	Windows, macOS, Linux
Size:	180MB
Language:	Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (classical), Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese
Language Count:	23
Genre:	Reference management
License:	MIT License

JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management software.^[2] ^[3] It is used to collect, organize and search bibliographic information.

JabRef has a target audience of academics and many university libraries have written guides on its usage.^[4] ^[5] ^[6] It uses BibTeX and BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for LaTeX.^[7] The name JabRef stands for Java, Alver, Batada, Reference. The original version was released on November 29, 2003.^[8]

Features

JabRef supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, it is available free of charge and is actively developed.

Collection

Import options for over 15 reference formats.
Extraction of metadata from PDFs.
Retrieval of articles and bibliographic information based on identifiers (arXiv, Biodiversity Heritage Library, CrossRef, DiVA, DOI, IACR eprints, ISBN, Library of Congress, MathSciNet, mEDRA, PubMed, RFC, SAO/NASA ADS, and zbMATH).
Support for the online scientific catalogues of ACM Portal, arXiv, CiteSeer, Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, CrossRef, DBLP, DOAJ, GVK, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE-HEP, MathSciNet, Medline, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, Springer, and zbMATH.
Browser based reference importing with the JabFox add-on for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi.

Organization

Supports hierarchical groupings based on keywords, tags, search terms etc.
Includes features for searching, filtering and detecting duplicates.
Attempts to complete partial bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogues such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet.
Citation keys, metadata fields and file renaming rules are customizable.

Interoperability

Thousands of citation styles are built-in.
Cite-as-you-write functionality for external applications such as Emacs, Kile, LyX, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim and WinEdt.
Support for Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice for inserting and formatting citations.
Library is saved as a human readable text file.
When editing in a group, the library can be synchronized with a SQL database.

Installation

The latest stable release is available at FossHub. For Unix-like operating systems, it is also common for JabRef to be available through the default package manager. Moreover, fresh development builds are available at builds.jabref.org.

References

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/main/MAINTAINERS maintainers file
The relationship of code churn and architectural violations in the open source software JabRef Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings. 2017 . 152–158 . EN. 10.1145/3129790.3129810. 32372358.
Basak. Sujit Kumar. 2014. Reference Management Software: A Comparative Analysis of JabRef and RefWorks. Int'l Conf. On Chemical Engineering & Advanced Computational Technologies.
Web site: BibTex and LaTex: JabRef . 2019-06-06 . Library of University of Saskatchewan.
Web site: JabRef and LateX . 2019-06-06 . The Library of the Melbourne University.
Book: Feyer . S. . Siebert . S. . Gipp . B. . Aizawa . A. . Beel . J. . Advances in Information Retrieval . Integration of the Scientific Recommender System Mr. DLib into the Reference Manager JabRef . 2017 . Jose . Joemon M . Hauff . Claudia . Altıngovde . Ismail Sengor . Song . Dawei . Albakour . Dyaa . Watt . Stuart . Tait . John . http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1kcivf5pthg7v6 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . en . Cham . Springer International Publishing . 10193 . 770–774 . 10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_80 . 978-3-319-56608-5.
Web site: On the popularity of reference managers, and their rise and fall Prof. Joeran Beel (TCD Dublin). Beel. Joeran. 2013-11-11. en-GB. 2020-03-11. 2020-06-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20200627084808/https://www.scss.tcd.ie/joeran.beel/blog/2013/11/11/on-the-popularity-of-reference-managers-and-their-rise-and-fall/. dead.
Web site: History of JabRef . 2011-12-30.