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
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
   or another database and PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  , Perl
  Perl
  Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
  
  , Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
  , or some other language for web applications)
• centrally-hosted website

  Software	Developer	First public release	Latest stable version	Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... )	Open source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...	License	Notes
  Aigaion Aigaion Aigaion is web-based reference management software. It structures a bibliography using topic tree oriented publication management. Publications may be annotated to briefly outline the publication's relevance. Aigaion is built on the BibTeX format....	Aigaion developers	2005-01	2009-03-12 (2.1.2)			GPL	web-based
  Bebop Bebop (software) Bebop is a web-based BibTeX front-end that creates a web interface to a list of publications stored in a BibTeX file and allows browsing by author, year, document type, topic and keywords using PHP, Javascript and XML technologies...	ALaRI Institute Advanced Learning and Research Institute Advanced Learning and Research Institute is a privately sponsored graduate school on the 4th floor of the main building of the University of Lugano , in Switzerland....	2007-11-08	2009-11-10 (1.1)			BSD	web-based BibTeX front-end
  BibDesk BibDesk BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for Mac OS X, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles...	BibDesk developers	2002-04	2011-05 (1.5.4)			BSD	BibTeX BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...  front-end + repository
  Biblioscape Biblioscape Biblioscape is a commercial information and reference management software package sold by CG Information. The software runs only under Windows.- History :...	CG Information	1998	2009-05-09 (8.01)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	ODBC; web access in Pro ed; optional client/server
  BibSonomy BibSonomy BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management...	University of Kassel University of Kassel The University of Kassel, founded in 1970, is one of the newer universities in the state of Hesse. The university is in Kassel, and as of September 2010 has about 18,113 students...	2006-01				proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	centrally-hosted website
  Bibus Bibus Bibus is a reference management software designed for OpenOffice.org packages and Microsoft Word in particular, with goal of creating an open source bibliographic software package that will allow easy formatting of the bibliographic index in OpenOffice.org Writer and Microsoft Word. It is based...	Bibus developers	2004-06-03	2009–10 (1.5.0)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
  Bookends Bookends (software) 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...	Sonny Software	1988 (Mac) / 1983 (Apple II+)	2009-1-15 (10.4.3)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	integrated web search, pdf download, auto-completion
  Citavi Citavi Citavi is a reference management program for Microsoft Windows published by Swiss Academic Software in Wädenswil, Switzerland. Citavi is widespread in Germany , with site licenses at many German universities, many of which offer training sessions and settings files for Citavi.-Versions:Citavi is...	Swiss Academic Software	2006-02-13	2011-09-29 (3.0.15)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
  CiteULike CiteULike CiteULike is based on the principle of social bookmarking and is aimed to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references amongst researchers. In the same way that it is possible to catalog web pages or photographs , scientists can share information on academic papers with specific...	Oversity Limited	2004-11				proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	centrally-hosted website
  Connotea Connotea Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists, researchers, and clinicians, created in December 2004 by Nature Publishing Group...	Nature Publishing Group Nature Publishing Group Nature Publishing Group is an international publishing company that publishes academic journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine...	2004-12	2006-02-01 (1.7.1)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	centrally-hosted website, web-based
  EndNote EndNote EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :...	Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...	1988	2011 (X5)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Includes EndNote Web account
  JabRef Jabref JabRef is a reference management software that uses BibTeX as its native format. JabRef provides an easy-to-use interface for editing BibTeX files, for importing data from online scientific databases, and for managing and searching BibTeX files....	JabRef developers	2003-11-29	2011-08-09 (2.7)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...  BibTeX BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...  manager
  Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...	Jumper Networks	2009-3	2009-3-26 (2.0.1.1)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	web-based
  KBibTeX KBibTeX KBibTeX is a reference management software primarily for BibTeX which is typically used in conjunction with TeX/LaTeX. Beyond normal editing capabilities, KBibTeX offers features such as searching and importing new references from Google Scholar or BibSonomy....	KBibTeX developers	2005-08	2011-06-02 (0.3.0)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	BibTeX BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...  font-end, using the KDE Software Compilation KDE Software Compilation The KDE Software Compilation is a desktop environment and an associated range of KDE Applications produced by KDE. Prior to version 4.4, released in February 2010, the Software Compilation was known as KDE, which used to stand for K Desktop Environment until November 2009...
  Mendeley Mendeley Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers. Mendeley requires the user to...	Mendeley	2008-08	(1.0)	4.99-9.99 per month / Free "Earth" account		(proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...  OS API clients exist)	Desktop & Web components, iPhone and iPad
  Papers	Mekentosj	2007	2011-03-08 (2.0.0)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	search repositories from interface; supports plug-ins, Universal iOS app
  PDF Stacks	PDF Stacks	2010	2010			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Search PDF's and repositories from interface; supports Windows & MAC
  Pybliographer Pybliographer Pybliographer is a reference management software tool that deals with bibliographic databases, used for viewing, editing, searching, and reformatting bibliographies...	pybliographer developers	0.2 (1998-10-30)	2010-10-14 (1.2.14)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... /GTK2
  Qiqqa Qiqqa Qiqqa is freeware and freemium reference management software that allows researchers to work with thousands of PDFs. It combines PDF reference management tools, a citation manager and a mind map brainstorming tool. It integrates with Microsoft Word XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 and BibTeX/LaTeX to...	Qiqqa	2010	2011			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Desktop; centrally hosted website
  refbase Refbase refbase is web-based institutional repository and reference management software which is often used for self-archiving. refbase is licensed under the GPL and written in PHP and uses a MySQL backend....	refbase developers	2003-06-03	2008-11-19 (0.9.5)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	web-based for institutional repositories Institutional repository An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.... /self-archiving Self-archiving To self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
  RefDB RefDB RefDB is a client/server reference database and bibliography tool for markup languages like SGML, XML, and LaTeX. It is suitable for standalone use for the purpose of self-archiving, but can be used as a institutional repository as well. Data storage proper is done in one of several supported SQL...	refdb developers	2001-04-25	2007-11-05 (0.9.9)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	network-transparent; XML XML Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards.... /SGML bibliographies
  Reference Manager Reference Manager Reference Manager is a commercial reference management software package sold by Thomson Reuters. It was the first commercial software of its kind, originally developed by Ernest Beutler and his son, Earl Beutler, in 1982 through their company Research Information Systems...	Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...	1984	12.0.3			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	network version available; built-in web publishing tool
  Referencer Referencer Referencer is a GNOME application to organize documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. It is designed with the scientist/researcher in mind, and "document" may be taken to mean "paper" in general, although Referencer can deal with any kind of document that BibTeX...	Referencer developers	?	2009-08-02 (1.1.6)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	BibTeX BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...  front-end
  RefWorks RefWorks RefWorks is a web-based commercial citation manager — an application for managing references, retrieving bibliographic information, and designing texts in terms of their literature references...	RefWorks	2001	2010-05			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	centrally-hosted website
  Scholar's Aid Scholar's Aid -Structure:Scholar's Aid program package includes a bibliographical data manager called Library, an importing/exporting manager called DataRetriever, and a notes/information manager called Notes.-Operation:...	Scholar's Aid, Inc.	1998	2008-4-1 (4.1)	149 / Free Lite version		proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
  Sente Sente (software) Sente is an academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente can search and retrieve references from sources like PubMed, Thomson/ISI's Web of Knowledge and any site supporting the Z39.50 or SRU search protocols. Sente also is used to collect and manage related material, such as PDF files. Sente...	Third Street Software, Inc.	2004	2009 (6.0.26)			proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
  Wikindx Wikindx Wikindx is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use or multi-user collaborative use across the internet. Wikindx falls within the category of reference management software, but also provides functionality to write notes and...	Mark Grimshaw	2004-02	2008-02-06 (3.8.2)			GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	web-based
  WizFolio WizFolio WizFolio is a web based reference management software for researchers to manage, share their research and academic papers and generate citations in scholarly writings...	WizPatent	2008-06	2010-07-05 (DragonBall)	/ Free Basic version		proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	centrally-hosted website
  Zotero Zotero Zotero is free, open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials . Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors...	Center for History and New Media Center for History and New Media The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was established by Roy Rosenzweig in 1994 to research and use digital media and information technology in historical research, education, digital tools and resources, digital preservation, and outreach.- Digital preservation...  at GMU George Mason University George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...	2006-10-05		free (100 MB storage) / Additional storage space available ($20/year -> 1 GB)		AGPL Affero General Public License The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL , refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:...	Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers...  extension; v3.01b released August 2011 as stand-alone version with connectors for Chrome and Safari.

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 Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	BSD	Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
PDF Stacks
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

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 BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...	Endnote EndNote EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :... /Refer Refer (software) refer is a program for managing bibliographic references,and citing them in troff documents.It is implemented as a troff preprocessor.refer was written by Mike E... /BibIX	Medline MEDLINE MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...	MODS XML	RIS RIS (file format) RIS is a standardized tag format developed by Research Information Systems, Incorporated to enable citation programs to exchange data.It is supported by a number of reference managers...	Other
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef					http://jabref.sourceforge.net/resources.php
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

Import file formats

This table lists the file format

File format

A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...

s 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 BibTeX BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...	Copac Copac Copac is a union catalogue which provides free access to the merged online catalogues of many major university research libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus an increasing number of specialist libraries and the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library...	CSA CSA (database company) CSA Illumina is a provider of online databases, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is now a division of ProQuest, which in turn is now a subsidiary of the Cambridge Information Group...	Endnote EndNote EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :... /Refer Refer (software) refer is a program for managing bibliographic references,and citing them in troff documents.It is implemented as a troff preprocessor.refer was written by Mike E... /BibIX	ISI Information Sciences Institute The Information Sciences Institute is a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering which focuses on computer and communications technology and information processing...	Medline MEDLINE MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...	MODS XML	Ovid Ovid Technologies Ovid Technologies, Inc. , part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic databases, journals and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences...	PubMed PubMed PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...	RIS RIS (file format) RIS is a standardized tag format developed by Research Information Systems, Incorporated to enable citation programs to exchange data.It is supported by a number of reference managers...	SciFinder	Other
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape												?
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid												?
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

Citation styles

Software	APA APA style American Psychological Association Style is a set of rules that authors use when submitting papers for publications in APA journals. The APA states that they were developed to assist reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and to "move the idea...	Chicago The Chicago Manual of Style The Chicago Manual of Style is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. Its 16 editions have prescribed writing and citation styles widely used in publishing... /Turabian	Harvard	MLA	Other	Extension method
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

Reference list file formats

Software	HTML HTML HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....	LaTeX LaTeX LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...	RTF Rich Text Format The Rich Text Format is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange....	Plain text Plain text In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text....	RSS RSS -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...	Other
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

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

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...

 and OpenOffice.org Writer

OpenOffice.org Writer

OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features....

 and the LaTeX

LaTeX

LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...

 editors Kile

Kile

Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX source code. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the Qt libraries installed.- Name :...

 and LyX

LyX

LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm , as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors...

. Other programs are able to scan RTF

Rich Text Format

The Rich Text Format is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange....

 or other textual formats to insert references.

Software	Microsoft Word	OpenOffice.org Writer	Kile/LyX	RTF scan	Other
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

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

Bookmarklet

A bookmarklet is Unobtrusive JavaScript stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet, however, an applet is not to be confused with a bookmarklet just as JavaScript is not to be confused with Java...

 or Firefox extension will allow a site to be scraped.

Software	ArXiv ArXiv The arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...	CiteSeer CiteSeer CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is often considered to be the first automated citation indexing system and was considered a predecessor of academic search tools such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. It was replaced by...	IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore IEEE Xplore is a scholarly research database that indexes, abstracts, and provides full-text for articles and papers on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics. The database mainly covers material from IEEE and IET. The IEEE Xplore database contains over two million...	PubMed PubMed PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...	Other
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

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
		User-specific permissions	Simultaneous write access
Aigaion
Bebop
BibDesk
Biblioscape
BibSonomy
Bibus
Bookends
Citavi
CiteULike
Connotea
EndNote
JabRef
Jumper 2.0
KBibTeX
Mendeley
Papers
Pybliographer
Qiqqa
refbase
RefDB
Reference Manager
Referencer
RefWorks
Scholar's Aid
Sente
Wikindx
WizFolio
Zotero

External links

• Several users' opinions:http://ask.metafilter.com/58092/Which-reference-management-software-should-I-use
• 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