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JabRef

reference management software
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Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
reference management software, free software[2]
Inception
November 29, 2003
Official website
www.jabref.org
More facts +17
Language of work or name
multiple languages, German, English, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Classical Chinese, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Korean, Ukrainian, Arabic, Finnish
Publication date
2003
Has use
reference management, arranging, control
Collection
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace, Text Analysis Portal for Research[8][9]
Copyright license
MIT License, GNU General Public License[10]
Copyright status
copyrighted
Developer
Oliver Kopp, Carl Christian Snethlage, Christoph Schwentker, JabRef e.V.[4][5][6][7]
Movement
free software movement[3]
Operating system
Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS[12][13][14]
Participant in
Google Summer of Code 2019, Google Summer of Code 2021
Platform
Java virtual machine
Programmed in
Java[11]
Readable file format
BibTeX, RIS, EndNote Library format 1-9
Social media followers
136 (127–136, n=3)
Software quality assurance
continuous integration
Software version identifier
2.9.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8.1, 3.8, 3.7, 3.1, 3.0, 2.11.1, 2.11, 3.8.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.3.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 6.0-beta.1[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Writable file format
BibTeX, XML
🏷️ Also known as
en Jabref en JabRef de Jabref fr Jabref sv Jabref tr referans yönetim yazılımı zh Jabref zh-hant Jabref
🔖 Identifiers · 26
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
JabRef-5.9.png ↗
AUR package
jabref, jabref-git
AlternativeTo software ID
jabref
CTAN package ID
JabRef
Chocolatey Community package ID
JabRef
Debian stable package
jabref
Described at URL
tapor.ca, marketplace.sshopencloud.eu
Flathub ID
org.jabref.jabref
Framalibre ID
jabref
Free Software Directory entry
JabRef
FreeBSD port
print/jabref
Freebase ID
/m/0d77f1
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Gentoo package
app-text/jabref, app-text/jabref-bin
GitHub account
JabRef
Issue tracker URL
github.com
Mastodon address
jabref@foojay.social
Open Hub ID
jabref
Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID
4834
Quora topic ID
JabRef
Repology project name
jabref
SILL software ID
246
SlackBuilds package
office/JabRef
Snap package
jabref
Source code repository URL
github.com
Stack Exchange tag
tex.stackexchange.com
User manual URL
docs.jabref.org

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🔗 Connections
Language of work or name 27
English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Japanese +19 more
Operating system 3
Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS
Collection 2
Text Analysis Portal for Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace
Developer 2
Christoph Schwentker, Oliver Kopp
Has use 2
control, reference management
Instance of 2
free software, reference management software
Readable file format 2
BibTeX, RIS
Writable file format 2
XML, BibTeX
Copyright license 1
MIT License
Movement 1
free software movement
Platform 1
Java virtual machine
Programmed in 1
Java
Software quality assurance 1
continuous integration
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Summary

JabRef is a reference management software[1].

Related Entities

Christoph Schwentker free software Java Java virtual machine Linux macOS Microsoft Windows Oliver Kopp XML

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  7. [8] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . tapor.ca. tapor.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · ~2026-52085-33 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → JabRef
    Source code repository URL → https://github.com/JabRef/jabref
    Quora topic ID → JabRef
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