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The following tables compare reference management software.
General
In the "notes" section, there is a difference between:
- web-based, referring to applications that may be installed on a web server (usually requiring MySQL or another database and PHP, perl, Python, or some other language for webapps)
- centrally-hosted website
Software | Developer | First public release | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Open source | License | Notes |
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2collab | Elsevier | 2007-11 | ? | Free | No | proprietary | centrally-hosted website, no longer accepting new accounts |
Aigaion | Aigaion developers | 2005-01 | 2.1.2 (2009-03-12) | Free | Yes | GPL | web-based |
Bebop | ALaRI Institute | 2007-11-08 | 1.1 (2009-11-10) | Free | Yes | BSD | web-based BibTeX front-end |
BibDesk | BibDesk developers | 2002-04 | 1.5.2 (2010-06) | Free | Yes | BSD | BibTeX front-end + repository |
Biblioscape | CG Information | 1998 | 8.01 (May 8, 2009) | US$79-299[1] | No | proprietary | ODBC; web access in Pro ed; optional client/server |
BibSonomy | University of Kassel | 2006-01 | ? | Free | No | proprietary | centrally-hosted website |
Bibus | Bibus developers | 2004-06-03 | 1.5.0 (2009–10) | Free | Yes | GPL | |
Bookends | Sonny Software | 1988 (Mac) / 1983 (Apple II+) | 10.4.3 (2009-1-15) | US$99[1] | No | proprietary | integrated web search, pdf download, auto-completion |
CiteULike | Oversity Limited | 2004-11 | ? | Free | No | proprietary[2] | centrally-hosted website |
Connotea | Nature Publishing Group | 2004-12 | 1.7.1 (2006-02-01) | Free | Yes | GPL | centrally-hosted website, web-based |
EndNote | Thomson Reuters | 1988 | X4.0.1 (2010) | US$299.95[1] | No | proprietary | Includes EndNote Web account |
Harvard AIR | Surfaraz Thakur | 2010 | 4.1 (2010) | Free | No | GPL | Adobe AIR based desktop application |
JabRef | JabRef developers | 2003-11-29 | 2.6.0 (2010-04-10) | Free | Yes | GPL | Java BibTeX manager |
Jumper 2.0 | Jumper Networks | 2009-3 | 2.0.1.1 (2009-3-26) | Free | Yes | GPL | web-based |
KBibTeX | KBibTeX developers | 2005-08 | 0.2.3 (2009-09-05) | Free | Yes | GPL | BibTeX font-end, using the KDE Software Compilation |
Mendeley | Mendeley | 2008-08 | 0.9.8.1 (October 11, 2010 | )Free | No | proprietary(OS API clients exist) | Desktop & Web components, iPhone and iPad |
Papers | Mekentosj | 2007 | 1.9.6 (2010-12-12) | US$42[1] | No | proprietary | search repositories from interface; supports plug-ins, Universal iOS app |
Pybliographer | pybliographer developers | ? | 1.2.12 (2008-11-30) | Free | Yes | GPL | Python/GTK2 |
Qiqqa | Qiqqa | 2010 | 2010 | Free | No | proprietary | Desktop; centrally hosted website |
refbase | refbase developers | 2003-06-03 | 0.9.5 (2008-11-19) | Free | Yes | GPL | web-based for institutional repositories/self-archiving[3] |
RefDB | refdb developers | 2001-04-25 | 0.9.9 (2007-11-05) | Free | Yes | GPL | network-transparent; XML/SGML bibliographies |
Reference Manager | Thomson Reuters | 1984 | 11.0.1 | US$239.95[1] | No | proprietary | network version available; built-in web publishing tool |
Referencer | Referencer developers | ? | 1.1.6 (2009-08-02) | Free | Yes | GPL | BibTeX front-end |
RefWorks | RefWorks | 2001 | 2010-05 | US$100 per year | No | proprietary | centrally-hosted website |
Scholar's Aid | Scholar's Aid, Inc. | 1998 | 4.1 (2008-4-1) | US$149[1] / Free Lite version | No | proprietary | |
Sente | Third Street Software, Inc. | 2004 | 6.0.26 (2009) | US$129.95[1] | No | proprietary | |
Wikindx | Mark Grimshaw | 2004-02 | 3.8.2 (2008-02-06) | Free | Yes | GPL | web-based |
WizFolio | WizPatent | 2008-06 | DragonBall (July 5, 2010) | US$25 / Free Basic version | No | proprietary | centrally-hosted website |
Zotero | Center for History and New Media at GMU | 2006-10-05 | 7.0.7[4] (2 October 2024 ) [±] | Free | Yes | GPL | Firefox extension; stand-alone and other browsers in alpha |
Operating system support
In the case of web applications, this describes the server OS. For centrally-hosted websites that are proprietary, this is not applicable. Any client OS can connect to a web service unless stated otherwise in a footnote.
Software | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix |
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2collab | — | — | — | — | — |
Aigaion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bebop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BibDesk | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Biblioscape | Yes | No | No | No | No |
BibSonomy | — | — | — | — | — |
Bibus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bookends | No | Yes | No | No | No |
CiteULike | — | — | — | — | — |
Connotea | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
EndNote | Yes[5] | Yes | No | No | No |
JabRef | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KBibTeX | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Papers | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Pybliographer | Partial[6] | Partial[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Qiqqa | Yes | No | No | No | No |
refbase | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RefDB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reference Manager | Yes[7] | No | No | No | No |
Referencer | No | No | Yes | No | No |
RefWorks | — | — | — | — | — |
Scholar's Aid | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Sente | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Wikindx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WizFolio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Zotero | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Export file formats
This table lists the machine-readable file formats that can be exported from reference managers. These are typically used to share data with other reference managers or with other people who use a reference manager. To exchange data from one program to another, the first program must be able to export to a format that the second program may import. Import file formats are in a table below this one.
Software | BibTeX | Endnote/Refer/BibIX | Medline | MODS XML | RIS | Other |
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2collab | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | CSV [3] |
Aigaion | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | none |
Bebop | Yes | No | No | No | No | unAPI |
BibDesk | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Endnote XML, user customizable |
Biblioscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | none |
BibSonomy | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | various [4] |
Bibus | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | SQLite |
Bookends | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | various user-customizable |
CiteULike | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | COinS, Delicious |
Connotea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | RDF |
EndNote | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | various [5] |
JabRef | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Depends[6] | BibTeXML, DocBook, OpenDocument for OO.o, user-customizable |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | various [7], user-customizable |
KBibTeX | Yes | Yes | No | Depends[8] | Yes | PDF, PostScript, HTML, XML |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Endnote XML |
Papers | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Bookends, CSV, Endnote XML, PDF |
Pybliographer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Ovid |
Qiqqa | Yes | No | No | No | No | none |
refbase | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | COinS, OpenDocument for OO.o, SRW XML via SRU, unAPI, Word XML |
RefDB | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | SRW XML via SRU web service, DocBook, TEI |
Reference Manager | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | MEDLARS, TSV, CSV, Reference Manager XML, user-customizable |
Referencer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | various [8] |
Scholar's Aid | No | ? | No | No | No | user-customizable |
Sente | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | user-customizable |
Wikindx | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | COinS |
WizFolio | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Zotero | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | RDF, Wikipedia citation templates |
Import file formats
This table lists the file formats which may be manually imported into the reference managers without needing to connect to one particular database. Many of these database companies use the same name for their file format as they do for their database (including Copac, CSA, ISI, Medline, Ovid, PubMed, and SciFinder). For the ability to retrieve citations from the particular databases (rather than the file format), please refer to the database connectivity table that is below this table.
Software | BibTeX | Copac | CSA | Endnote/Refer/BibIX | ISI | Medline | MODS XML | Ovid | PubMed | RIS | SciFinder | Other |
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2collab | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | IE and Firefox bookmarks [9] |
Aigaion | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | none |
Bebop | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | none |
BibDesk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | MARC, JSTOR, Reference Miner |
Biblioscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
BibSonomy | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Firefox bookmarks |
Bibus | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | none |
Bookends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [10]; user-customizable |
Citavi | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various |
CiteULike | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | none |
Connotea | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Firefox bookmarks |
EndNote | No[9] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [11] |
JabRef | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BibTexML, Biblioscape, Biomail, Inspec, JSTOR, REPEC (NEP), SilverPlatter, SixPack |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Firefox bookmarks |
KBibTeX | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Depends[8] | No | Yes | Yes | No | none |
Mendeley | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Browser bookmarks |
Papers | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Endnote ENW, Endnote XML, CHM eBook, PDF |
Pybliographer | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | none |
Qiqqa | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | none |
refbase | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | RefWorks |
RefDB | Yes | Yes[8] | No | Yes[8] | Yes[8] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[8] | MARC, risx |
Reference Manager | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [12]; user-customizable |
Referencer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | none |
RefWorks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [13] |
Scholar's Aid[10] | No | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | ? |
Sente | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Dublin Core, Marc21 SUTRS, JSTOR, SilverPlatter |
Wikindx | Yes | Depends[8] | No | Yes[citation needed] | Depends[8] | No | Depends[8] | No | Yes[citation needed] | Yes[citation needed] | No | User plug-ins[citation needed] |
WizFolio | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Internet Browser bookmarks [14] |
Zotero | Yes | No[11] | No[11] | Yes | Partial[12] | No | Yes | Partial[12] | Partial(directly from webpage, not from saved files)[12] | Yes | No | COinS, MARC, RDF, unAPI |
Citation styles
Software | APA | Chicago/Turabian | Harvard | MLA | Other | Extension method |
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2collab | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Aigaion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BMJ, IEEE | OSBIB |
Bebop | No | No | No | No | none | none |
BibDesk | Yes | No | No | No | various | BibDesk export templates |
Biblioscape | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2000+ styles [citation needed] | GUI style editor |
BibSonomy | Yes | No | Yes | No | none | none |
Bibus | Yes | No | No | No | user-contributed | bibus format (through GUI) |
Bookends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various[citation needed] | ? |
Citavi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | Citavi format (through GUI) |
CiteULike | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various[citation needed] | none |
Connotea | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
EndNote | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | EndNote format (through GUI) |
JabRef | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | any BibTeX style | BibTeX |
Jumper 2.0 | No | No | No | No | none | none |
KBibTeX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | any BibTeX style | BibTeX |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | CSL |
Papers | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Pybliographer | Yes | No | No | No | none | Pybliographer XML |
Qiqqa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | any BibTeX style | BibTeX |
refbase | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various polar & marine journals | PHP |
RefDB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Various biomedical & law journals | XML (citestylex.dtd), interactive script |
Reference Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | ? |
Referencer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | RefWorks format through GUI |
Scholar's Aid | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | MHRA | SA format through GUI |
Sente | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various[citation needed] | Sente format through GUI |
Wikindx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BMJ, IEEE | OSBIB |
WizFolio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | WizFolio format (through GUI) |
Zotero | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | CSL |
Reference list file formats
Software | HTML | LaTeX[13] | RTF | Plain text | RSS | Other |
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2collab | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Aigaion | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No |
Bebop | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | unAPI |
BibDesk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Atom, DOC, PDF, XML, |
Biblioscape | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
BibSonomy | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | OpenOffice-CSV |
Bibus | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Bookends | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard |
Citavi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard, DOC, ODT, PDF |
CiteULike | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Connotea | — | — | — | — | Yes | — |
EndNote | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard, XML |
JabRef | Yes | ? | Depends | Yes | No | clipboard |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | XML, PDF |
KBibTeX | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | PDF,PS |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes[citation needed] | Yes | Yes | Yes | clipboard, embeddable HTML widget, RSS |
Papers | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Pybliographer | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No | No |
refbase | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Markdown, PDF, unAPI |
RefDB | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | DocBook, TEI |
Reference Manager | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Referencer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | Partial[14] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | DOC, ODT |
Scholar's Aid | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard |
Sente | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard |
Wikindx | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
WizFolio | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | clipboard, DOC |
Zotero | Yes | No | Yes | No | Beta | clipboard |
Word processor integration
Most reference management software supports copy/paste or drag-and-drop of references into any editor. Some reference management software includes further support for automatic embedding and (re)formatting of references in some programs. This table lists support for the latter for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer and the LaTeX editors Kile and LyX. Other programs are able to scan RTF or other textual formats to insert references.
Software | Microsoft Word | OpenOffice.org Writer | Kile/LyX | RTF scan[15] | Other |
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2collab | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Aigaion | No | No | No | No | none |
Bebop | No | No | No | No | none |
BibDesk | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Biblioscape | Yes | No | No | ? | WordPerfect |
BibSonomy | No | No | No | No | none |
Bibus | Yes | Yes | No | ? | none |
Bookends | Yes | No | No | Yes | Mellel, Nisus |
Citavi | No | No | Yes | Yes | LEd, TeXnicCenter, TeXMaker, WinEdt, WinShell, WinTeX |
CiteULike | No | No | No | No | none |
Connotea | No | No | No | No | none |
EndNote | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Apple Pages '09 |
JabRef | Depends[16] | Partial[17] | Yes | ? | Emacs, Vim, WinEdt |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | No | ? | WordPerfect |
KBibTeX | No | No | Yes | ? | none |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | No | ? | NeoOffice |
Papers | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Pages, Mellel, TextEdit; HTML |
Pybliographer | No | Yes | Yes | ? | none |
Qiqqa | Yes | No | Yes | No | none |
refbase | No | Yes[17] | No | Yes | PIRA, MediaWiki, SPIP |
RefDB | No | No | No | No | none |
Reference Manager | Yes | No | No | ? | none |
Referencer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | Yes | No | No | Yes | none |
Scholar's Aid | Yes | Yes | No | ? | WordPro, WordPerfect, HWP |
Sente | Yes | No | No | Yes | Pages, Mellel, Nisus, TextEdit; HTML and plain text scan |
Wikindx | No | No | No | Yes | Integrated WYSIWYG word processor |
WizFolio | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Google Docs, Zoho Writer |
Zotero | Yes | Yes | (with LyZ)[18] | Yes | NeoOffice, LibreOffice |
Database connectivity
This table lists the academic databases and search engines which reference managers can import from. In some cases, a search and retrieval can be conducted directly in the reference manager. In others, a bookmarklet or Firefox extension will allow a site to be scraped.
Software | ArXiv | CiteSeer | IEEE Xplore | PubMed | Other |
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2collab | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Aigaion | No | No | No | No | none |
Bebop | No | No | No | No | No |
BibDesk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Web of Science, any Z39.50 or Entrez |
Biblioscape | No | No | No | Yes | Import from integrated web browser |
BibSonomy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [15] |
Bibus | No | No | No | Yes | none |
Bookends | Yes | No | No | Yes | Web of Science, Amazon, Google Scholar, Z39.50 |
Citavi | No | No | Yes | Yes | OvidSP, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of Science, Z39.50 |
CiteULike | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [16] |
Connotea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | various [17] |
EndNote | No | No | No | Yes | various [18] |
JabRef | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | none |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [19] |
KBibTeX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BibSonomy, CiteBase, CSB, DBLP, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, SPIRES, Z MATH, Z39.50 |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [20] |
Papers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACM, ADS, Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR, MathSciNet, Project Muse, Scopus, Web of Science |
Pybliographer | No | No | No | Yes | none |
Qiqqa | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | GoogleScholar, JSTOR |
refbase | Yes | No | No | Yes | DOI lookup |
RefDB | Yes | No | No | Yes | any Z39.50 |
Reference Manager | No | No | No | Yes | various [21] |
Referencer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | No | No | No | Yes | various |
Scholar's Aid | No | No | No | Yes | Z39.50 |
Sente | No | No | No | Yes | Z39.50, SRU, Web of Knowledge |
Wikindx | No | No | No | Yes | none |
WizFolio | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | various [22] |
Zotero | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various [23] |
Password "protection" and network versions
Some reference managers provide network functionality. (N/A means the product has no networking, while "no" indicates it does (but lacks an implemented feature))
Software | Passworded | Networking | |
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User-specific permissions[19] | Simultaneous write access | ||
2collab | Yes | No | ? |
Aigaion | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bebop | No | — | — |
BibDesk | Yes | No | No |
Biblioscape | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BibSonomy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bibus | ? | ? | ? |
Bookends | ? | ? | ? |
Citavi | No | No | No |
CiteULike | Yes | No | Yes |
Connotea | Yes | ? | Yes |
EndNote | No | No | No |
JabRef | No | — | — |
Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KBibTeX | No | — | — |
Mendeley | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Papers | ? | ? | ? |
Pybliographer | ? | ? | ? |
Qiqqa | Yes | Yes | Yes |
refbase | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RefDB | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reference Manager | Yes | No | Yes |
Referencer | ? | ? | ? |
RefWorks | Yes | ? | Yes |
Scholar's Aid | No | — | — |
Sente | No | No | No |
Wikindx | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WizFolio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Zotero | No | Yes | Yes |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g MSRP for full version, usually with physical media. Discounted downloads and academic discounts might be available. More expensive workgroup/server/librarian versions may be available.
- ^ A developer kit is available. The community is invited to create plugins to access data off databases
- ^ A centrally-hosted website is available at refbase.org.
- ^ "Zotero Version History". 2 October 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ Endnote is compatible with MS Word 2010(only 32bit)
- ^ a b The GUI requires gnome-python, which isn't available for Windows or OS X.
- ^ Reference Manager is not compatible with word 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Supported through the bibutils plugin
- ^ Endnote cannot import directly BibTex files, but there are various methods to transform these into the refer format, which may be imported [1]
- ^ The DataRetriever module that imports and exports data is not compatible with Vista.
- ^ a b Zotero can import references directly from the database after which this format is named, although it cannot read the format itself.
- ^ a b c Zotero imports directly from the webpage to the library, so many users find it more convenient than traditional two-step way of saving reference files to the disk and then importing it into the library. Zotero can import references in these formats directly from some databases, but not from files saved on the disk.
- ^ This refers to the direct output of raw LaTeX (often in a format similar to the BibTeX-generated .bbl files). Many programs can export BibTeX (see above table), which can then be processed into LaTeX.
- ^ URLs aren't active links
- ^ Can reformat references in a properly saved RTF document, allowing limited use in OpenOffice.org Writer, StarOffice, FrameMaker, Microsoft Works, WordPad, WordPerfect, and others. Bookends is able to scan files from Pages, Mellel, Nisus Writer Express and Pro Macros.
- ^ JabRef can be integrated in Microsoft Word using bibtex4word.dot.
- ^ a b JabRef and refbase can create a spreadsheet for import into an OO.o database to use the native OO.o bibliography tool. refbase's MySQL database can additionally be used directly by OO.o [2].
- ^ The LyZ extension integrates Zotero with Lyx/Kile
- ^ Most databases allow one to create different user accounts to store records. Some further allow you to specify permissions (granting and denying some users the rights to edit or read some or all of your records. This column describes the latter.
External links
- Several users' opinions:[24]
- Bibliographic Software and Standards Information
- Comparison of Free Bibliographic Managers
- Finding the right bibliographic/reference tool
- Open standards and software for bibliographies and cataloging
- Personal Bibliography Management Software: Analysis and Comparison of Some Packages
- Evaluation of Reference Management Software (last updated Apr 2001)
- EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite comparison chart by Adept Scientific
- Reference Manager Overview by Martin Fenner, version 2.4, 2010-09-19