JabRef

{{Short description|Reference management software}}

{{Infobox software

| name = JabRef

| logo = JabRef Icon.svg

| screenshot = JabRef-5.9.png

| caption = JabRef 5.9 under Linux

| author = Morten O. Alver, Nizar N. Batada, et al.

| developer = The JabRef team[https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/main/MAINTAINERS maintainers file] in JabRef repository

| released = {{start date and age|2003|11|29|df=yes|paren=yes}}

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|edit|P348}}

| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| programming language = Java

| operating system = Windows, macOS, Linux

| platform =

| size = 180{{nbsp}}MB

| 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

| language footnote =

| genre = Reference management

| license = MIT License

| website = {{url|https://www.jabref.org}}

}}

JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management software.{{Cite journal|title=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|year=2017 |pages=152–158 |language=EN|doi=10.1145/3129790.3129810|s2cid=32372358|url = http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68408}}{{Cite journal|last=Basak|first=Sujit Kumar|date=2014|title=Reference Management Software: A Comparative Analysis of JabRef and RefWorks|url=http://iieng.org/images/proceedings_pdf/4330E1114002.pdf|journal=Int'l Conf. On Chemical Engineering & Advanced Computational Technologies}} 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.{{cite web |title=BibTex and LaTex: JabRef |url=https://libguides.usask.ca/c.php?g=218034&p=1440031 |access-date=2019-06-06 |publisher=Library of University of Saskatchewan}}{{cite web |title=JabRef and LateX |url=https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=565734&p=3897117 |access-date=2019-06-06 |publisher=The Library of the Melbourne University |archive-date=2021-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006092114/https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=565734&p=3897117 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book |last1=Feyer |first1=S. |last2=Siebert |first2=S. |last3=Gipp |first3=B. |last4=Aizawa |first4=A. |last5=Beel |first5=J. |title=Advances in Information Retrieval |chapter=Integration of the Scientific Recommender System Mr. DLib into the Reference Manager JabRef |date=2017 |editor-last=Jose |editor-first=Joemon M |editor2-last=Hauff |editor2-first=Claudia |editor3-last=Altıngovde |editor3-first=Ismail Sengor |editor4-last=Song |editor4-first=Dawei |editor5-last=Albakour |editor5-first=Dyaa |editor6-last=Watt |editor6-first=Stuart |editor7-last=Tait |editor7-first=John |chapter-url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1kcivf5pthg7v6 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |language=en |location=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |volume=10193 |pages=770–774 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_80 |isbn=978-3-319-56608-5}} It uses BibTeX and BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for LaTeX.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scss.tcd.ie/joeran.beel/blog/2013/11/11/on-the-popularity-of-reference-managers-and-their-rise-and-fall/|title=On the popularity of reference managers, and their rise and fall {{!}} {{!}} Prof. Joeran Beel (TCD Dublin)|last=Beel|first=Joeran|date=2013-11-11|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-11|archive-date=2020-06-27|archive-url=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/|url-status=dead}} The name JabRef stands for Java, Alver, Batada, Reference. The original version was released on November 29, 2003.{{cite web | url=http://jabref.sourceforge.net/revisionhistory.php | title = History of JabRef | access-date=2011-12-30}}