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JabRef Bibliography Management

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.

Want to be part of a free and open-source project that tens of thousands of scientists use every day? Check out the ways you can contribute, below:

Not a programmer? Help translating JabRef at Crowdin or learn how to help at contribute.jabref.org
Quick overview on the architecture needed? Look at our high-level documentation
For details on how to contribute, have a look at our guidelines for contributing.
You are welcome to contribute new features. To get your code included into JabRef, just fork the JabRef repository, make your changes, and create a pull request.
To work on existing JabRef issues, check out our issue tracker. New to open source contributing? Look for issues with the "good first issue" label to get started.

Please follow our step-by-step guide on how to set-up your workspace.

We use GitHub Actions for executing the tests after each commit. For developing, it is sufficient to locally only run the associated test for the classes you changed. GitHub will report any other failure.

We view pull requests as a collaborative process. Submit a pull request early to get feedback from the team on work in progress. We will discuss improvements with you and agree to merge them once the developers approve. Please also remember to discuss bigger changes early with the core developers to ensure properly spend time and work. Some fundamental design decisions can be found within our list of Architectural Decision Records.

Research and Education

JabRef welcomes research applied to it. The current list of papers where JabRef helped to enhance science is maintained at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/JabRef-in-the-Media.

The JabRef team also fosters to use JabRef in Software Engineering training. We offer guidelines for this at https://devdocs.jabref.org/teaching.html.

When citing JabRef, please use following citation:

@Article{jabref,
  author  = {Oliver Kopp and Carl Christian Snethlage and Christoph Schwentker},
  title   = {JabRef: BibTeX-based literature management software},
  journal = {TUGboat},
  volume  = {44},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {441--447},
  doi     = {10.47397/tb/44-3/tb138kopp-jabref},
  issn    = {0896-3207},
  issue   = {138},
  year    = {2023},
}