jabref – Graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases

JabRef is a graphical frontend to manage BibTeX (and BibLaTeX) databases having BibTeX as internal format. It offers quality checks for entries; fetching complete bibliographic information based on ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID; searching across many online scientific catalogues such as CiteSeer, CrossRef, Google Scholar, IEEEXplore, INSPIRE-HEP, Medline PubMed, MathSciNet, Springer, arXiv, and zbMATH.

It allows for grouping entries (and storing the group information in the .bib file itself), advancing searching and filtering, finding duplicate entries, attaching and renaming PDFs (e.g., according to the BibTeX key), and generating BibTeX keys.

Since JabRef fully relies on BibTeX, additional information such as ranking, priority, printed-flag, and quality-assured-flag are stored in the BibTeX entry in the .bib file itself.