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.

A free reference manager that helps you to discover, collect, organize and cite your scholarly literature and research in an efficient way.

Apr 7, 2025 · This is the place to ask questions and request help on using JabRef. If you have found a bug, please report it at GitHub.

Dec 12, 2018 · I use JabRef v. 4.3.1 on Windows 10 (latest update). Every time I start up JabRef, I get an error message saying: I have tried to install/update Java several times, but the error message persists. What is wrong?

Sep 27, 2016 · I think the fastest method is to copy the bibtex-String to the clipboard (Ctrl-C), switch to JabRef, make sure that no entry is selected in the main table (potential use “ctrl-click” to unselect an entry, and than paste the bibtexkey from the clipboard (ctrl-v) which creates a new entry which is than opened in the editor.

Dec 23, 2024 · A long standing wish from many users could finally be integrated into JabRef - the support for using CSL styles via our LibreOffice integration. You can now choose between the old Jstyles and the new CSL styles when inserting citations into …

Mar 11, 2024 · This blog post starts a series of posts on the 20 years anniversary of JabRef. We asked various contributors about their stories on JabRef and other insights. One of the early contributors was David Weitzman, who started contributing to JabRef while he was in high school: Your Journey with JabRef: When, how, and why did you join/start to use ...