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jabref

Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries

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Organize and manage your academic references and citations easily.

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Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries

jabref has 4.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3.5k times. jabref is written mainly in Java. It has been in active development since 2014. jabref is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are academia, academic-publications, ai, biblatex.

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What is jabref?

Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries

Is jabref open source?

jabref is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

Is jabref free?

Yes. jabref is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does jabref use?

jabref is available under the MIT license.

What language is jabref written in?

jabref is written mainly in Java.

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