![]() ![]() ![]() What are citation/ bibliography/ and reference managers?īibliography management tool (also known as citation or reference management tools) help researchers and scholars organize their research sources and generate bibliographies in multiple citation formats and styles. It tracks the articles, books, researches and allows the user to tag, annotate them then create citations and bibliographies with ease. The manual process takes time as well as effort to do the same. There are many citations and reference managers available, most of them are commercial software. So here we are providing a list of the most used and powerful open source free reference managers. If you use LaTeX/ TeX you can easily generate BibTeX. We have covered several LaTex/ TeX editors mainly for macOS but most listed software work for Windows and Linux as well. JabRef is a cross-platform free reference manager. Because it is required to use the writing and citing features provided by the Citation Plugin, it tends to be very popular with those users who are doing a lot of paper writing. It's a simple yet powerful tool that comes with a rich feature list. Mendeley Desktop Overview Mendeley Desktop is still the ‘core’ Mendeley experience, and is the most commonly used Mendeley application. JabRef can be a powerful free alternative to many commercial citation/ bibliography managers. JabRef supports many formats, offers powerful search tools, and many export formats. It comes with many languages and online-search tool that searches in many external-databases like arXiv, CiteseerX, Google Scholar, Medline, GVK, IEEEXplore, and Springer. This software works smoothly on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It's also easy-to-install and to use for all users. We have written a snap review about JabRef, as we listed all of its features. Mendeley is a free academic social network that offers reference/ citation manager and extensions. Mendeley network allows researchers to collaborate online and use online, desktop or browser extensions to increase their productivity. Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Mendeley offers desktop reference managers for macOS, Linux and Windows. It also provides mobile apps for its users on iOS and Android. Though Mendeley is not open source, it's free we have listed it here because of its great value for researchers. ![]() Zotero is a free open-source cross-platform reference management package. It features a powerful desktop client for Windows, Linux and macOS, reference citation tool, reference organization manager, multiple style support, Microsoft Office/ LibreOffice support and a powerful synchronization option that help sync citations across many devices. Zotero supports collaborative bibliography writing and it eases sharing the libraries between researchers and groups.ĭocer is an open-source cross-platform citation, & bibliography manager. It follows a different approach that other reference managers listed here "Single section user-interface" which shows all categories, documents, tags, and annotations. ![]()
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