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JabRef alternatives

  • Mendeley

  • Mendeley helps manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for organizing and sharing research papers and generating bibliographies with 1GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize your library across desktop, web and mobile. Mendeley Web is a free research network which lets you manage research papers online, discover trends and connect to like-minded academics. Mendeley tracks usage data on over 40 million research papers in real-time, thus creating a network of people using and sharing millions of scholarly articles - helping to shift research into the 21st century world of collaboration and openness. Mendeley is engendering a revolution in the way research is conducted and disseminated, changing the face of science. »

    tags: academic bibliography-generator bibliography-management browser-integration citation-maker
  • Qiqqa

  • Qiqqa is free award-winning knowledge-, research- and reference management software. If you're serious about getting the most from managing your publications, PDFs and bibliographies, Qiqqa is for you.

    tags: Portable academic automatic-tagging bibliographic bibliography
  • Docear

  • Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features are:

    tags: Portable bibtex citations educational file-management
  • EndNote

  • A reference management software, used for searching online publication databases, & managing publications / bibliographies, with the ability to insert the references into a word processor.

    tags: academic-feature information-management microsoft-office-compatible personal-information-manager publication
  • Citavi

  • A handy, intuitive reference-managing tool. Citavi researches in over 4800 databases and catalogs, organizes and structures your literature, references, quotes and idea collections and assists you with your documentation or publication.

    tags: task-management knowledge-management taskmanager information-management task-planner
  • BibSonomy

  • BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature (BibTex format).

    tags: bibtex bookmarks data-mining folksonomy knowledge-management
  • BibDesk

  • BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format.

    tags: reference latex tex citation bibliography
  • Paperpile

  • Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs.

    tags: document-management library reference research bibliography
  • EasyBib

  • Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

    tags: apa bibliographic bibliography bibliography-generator bibliography-management
  • Cite This For Me

  • Automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button.

    tags: bibliography bibliography-generator chrome-extension citation
  • Bookends

  • Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals. It works with several word processors, including Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express, OpenOffice.org Writer and others. Bookends is made by Sonny Software and maintained by its owner and developer Jon Ashwell.

    tags: bibliography citations formatting information-management mellel
  • SCIENTILLA

  • Scientilla is a new approach to give the scientific community an open, free, accurate, tidy and up-to-date production reporting solution.

    tags: bibliography reference-management
  • LibreOffice Plugin for Zotero

  • This Zotero plugin allows the user to automatically generate bibliographies (as well as in-text citations and footnotes) for LibreOffice and OpenOffice. It allows the user to insert a new in-text citation into a manuscript, and the bibliography will be automatically updated to include the cited item. Correct the title of an item in your Zotero library and with a click of a button the change will be incorporated in the texts.

    tags: reference word-processing citation