Comparison of reference management software

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following tables compare reference management software. Contents [hide] 1 General 2 Operating system support 3 Export file formats 4 Import file formats 5 Citation styles 6 Reference list file formats 7 Word processor integration 8 Database connectivity 9 Password "protection" and network versions 10 References 11 External links

[edit] 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 First public release Latest Cost (USD) Open stable source version 2.1.2 (20092005-01 Free Yes 03-12) 2007-11- 1.1 (2009Free Yes 08 11-10) 1.5.4 (20112002-04 Free Yes 05) 1998 8.01 (May 8, US$79-299[1] 2009) Free Free US$99[1] No No Yes No

Software Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends

Developer Aigaion developers ALaRI Institute BibDesk developers CG Information

License GPL BSD BSD proprietary proprietary GPL proprietary

Notes web-based web-based BibTeX front-end BibTeX front-end + repository ODBC; web access in Pro ed; optional client/server centrally-hosted website

University of 2006-01 ? Kassel Bibus 2004-06- 1.5.0 (2009 developers 03 10) Sonny 1988 10.4.3 Software (Mac) / (2009-1-15) 1983

integrated web search, pdf download, auto-

(Apple II+) Citavi Swiss Academic Software Oversity Limited Nature Publishing Group Thomson Reuters JabRef developers Jumper Networks KBibTeX developers 2006-0213 2004-11 2004-12 1988 3.0.12 (2011-0309) ? 1.7.1 (200602-01) US$111-231 / Free for projects up to 100 references Free Free No proprietary

completion

CiteULike Connotea EndNote JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX

No Yes No Yes Yes Yes

proprietary[2] GPL proprietary GPL GPL GPL

X5 (2011) US$299.95[1] Free Free Free

2003-11- 2.7 (201129 08-09) 2.0.1.1 2009-3 (2009-3-26) 0.3.0 (20112005-08 06-02)

centrally-hosted website centrally-hosted website, webbased Includes EndNote Web account Java BibTeX manager web-based BibTeX font-end, using the KDE Software Compilation

Mendeley

Mendeley

US$4.991.0 (July 28, 9.99 per 2008-08 2011; 55 month[1] / days ago) Free "Earth" account 2.0.0 (201103-08)

No

proprietary(OS Desktop & Web API clients components, exist) iPhone and iPad search repositories from interface; supports plugins, Universal iOS app Search PDF's and repositories from interface; supports Windows & MAC Python/GTK2 Desktop; centrally hosted website web-based for institutional repositories/selfarchiving[3] networktransparent; XML/SGML bibliographies network version

Papers

Mekentosj

2007

US$79[1]

No

proprietary

PDF Stacks

PDF Stacks

2010

2010

US$39[1]

No

proprietary

Pybliographer Qiqqa

0.2 1.2.14 pybliographer (1998-10- (2010-10developers 30) 14) Qiqqa refbase developers refdb developers Thomson 2010 2011

Free Free

Yes No

GPL proprietary

refbase

2003-06- 0.9.5 (200803 11-19) 2001-04- 0.9.9 (200725 11-05) 1984 12.0.3

Free

Yes

GPL

RefDB Reference

Free US$239.95[1]

Yes No

GPL proprietary

Manager Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid Sente Wikindx WizFolio

Reuters Referencer developers RefWorks ? 2001 1.1.6 (200908-02) 2010-05 Free Yes No No No Yes No GPL proprietary proprietary proprietary GPL proprietary

available; built-in web publishing tool BibTeX front-end centrally-hosted website

US$100 per year US$149[1] / Scholar's Aid, 4.1 (2008-41998 Free Lite Inc. 1) version Third Street 6.0.26 2004 US$129.95[1] Software, Inc. (2009) Mark 3.8.2 (20082004-02 Free Grimshaw 02-06) DragonBall US$25 / WizPatent 2008-06 (July 5, Free Basic 2010) version Center for 2.1.10 History and 2006-10- (September New Media at 05 4, 2011; 17 GMU days ago) Free

web-based centrally-hosted website Firefox extension; stand-alone and other browsers in alpha

Zotero

Yes

AGPL

[edit] Operating system support 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 Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends Citavi CiteULike Connotea EndNote JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX Mendeley Papers PDF Stacks Pybliographer Qiqqa refbase Windows Mac OS X Linux Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No N/A N/A N/A Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No N/A N/A N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Experimental Experimental Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No [4] [4] Partial Partial Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes BSD Unix Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No N/A N/A Yes Yes No No No No N/A N/A Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes

RefDB Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks[6] Scholar's Aid Sente Wikindx WizFolio Zotero [edit] Export file formats

Yes Yes[5] No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes N/A No No Yes Yes Yes

Yes No No N/A No No Yes Yes Yes

Yes No No N/A No No Yes Yes Yes

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 Aigaion Bebop BibTeX Yes Yes Endnote/Refer/BibIX No No Medline No No MODS XML No No RIS Yes No Other none unAPI Endnote XML, user customizable none various [4] SQLite various usercustomizable various COinS, Delicious RDF various [5]

BibDesk

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends Citavi CiteULike Connotea EndNote JabRef

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No

No No No No No No Yes No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Depends[6] BibTeXML, DocBook, OpenDocument for OO.o, SQL database, user-

customizable various [7], usercustomizable PDF, PostScript, HTML, XML, RTF Endnote XML Bookends, CSV, Endnote XML, PDF Ovid none COinS, OpenDocument for OO.o, SRW XML via SRU, unAPI, Word XML SRW XML via SRU web service, DocBook, TEI MEDLARS, TSV, CSV, Reference Manager XML, usercustomizable ? various [8] usercustomizable usercustomizable COinS

Jumper 2.0

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

KBibTeX

Yes

Yes

No

Depends[7] Yes

Mendeley

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Papers

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Pybliographer Qiqqa

Yes Yes

Yes No

Yes No

No No

No No

refbase

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

RefDB

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Reference Manager

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid

Yes Yes No

? No ?

? No No

? No No

? Yes No

Sente Wikindx

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

No No

No No

Yes Yes

WizFolio

No

No

No

No

Yes

No RDF, Wikipedia citation templates

Zotero [edit] Import file formats

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

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 BibTe Copac CSA Endnote/Refer/ ISI X BibIX Aigaion Bebop Yes Yes No No No No No No No No Medlin MODS Ovid PubMe RIS e XML d No No No No No No No No Yes No SciFind Other er No No none none MARC, JSTOR, Referenc e Miner ? Firefox bookmar ks none various [9]; usercustomiz able various none Firefox bookmar ks various [10] BibTexM L,

BibDesk

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bibliosca Yes pe BibSono Yes my Bibus Yes

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

No

Bookends Yes

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Citavi

Yes

Yes No

Yes Yes No No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes Yes

Yes No

CiteULike Yes

Connotea Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

EndNote No[8] JabRef Yes

No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

No No

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Bibliosca pe, Biomail, Inspec, JSTOR, MSBib, PDF widh XMP annotatio ns, REPEC (NEP), SilverPlat ter, SixPack Jumper 2.0 Firefox bookmar ks none Browser bookmar ks Endnote ENW, Endnote XML, CHM eBook, PDF none none RefWork s MARC, risx various [11]; usercustomiz

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

KBibTeX Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

Depen No ds[7]

Yes

Yes

No

Mendeley Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

Papers

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

Pybliogra Yes pher Qiqqa refbase Yes Yes

No No Yes Yes[7] No

No No

Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes[7] Yes

Yes No Yes

No No Yes

Yes No No

No Yes Yes

No No Yes

No No Yes Yes[7] Yes

Yes Yes Yes[7]

RefDB

Yes

No

Yes Yes

Yes No

No Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Reference Yes Manager

Yes Yes

able Reference Yes r RefWorks Yes Scholar's No Aid[9] No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes No none various [12] ? Dublin Core, Marc21 SUTRS, JSTOR, SilverPlat ter User plugins[citation
needed]

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

Sente

Yes

No

Yes Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Wikindx

Yes

Depen No ds[7]

Yes

[citation needed]

Depen No ds[7]

Depen No ds[7]

Yes[citati
on needed]

Yes[cita
tion needed]

No

WizFolio No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

No

Internet Browser bookmar ks [13] COinS, MARC, RDF, unAPI, Browser bookmar ks

Zotero

Yes

No[10]

No[10
]

Yes

Yes[11] No

Yes

Partial
[12]

Yes

Yes

No

[edit] Citation styles Software Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape APA Yes No Yes Yes Chicago/Turabian Yes No No Yes Harvard Yes No No Yes MLA Yes No No Yes Other BMJ, IEEE none various 2000+ styles[citation Extension method OSBIB none BibDesk export templates GUI style editor

needed]

BibSonomy Bibus

Yes Yes

No No

Yes No

No No

none usercontributed various[citation

needed]

none bibus format (through GUI) ? Citavi format (through GUI) none ? EndNote format (through GUI) BibTeX none BibTeX CSL CSL Pybliographer XML

Bookends

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Citavi

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

700+ styles various[citation

needed]

CiteULike Connotea EndNote

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

? various any BibTeX style none any BibTeX style 1600+ styles 1600+ styles none any BibTeX style and 1600+ styles various polar & marine journals Various biomedical & law journals various ? various

JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX Mendeley Papers Pybliographer

Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes Yes No

Yes No Yes Yes Yes No

Yes No Yes Yes Yes No

Qiqqa

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

BibTeX and CSL

refbase

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PHP

RefDB

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

XML (citestylex.dtd), interactive script Template:GUI style editor ? RefWorks format

Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

Yes ? Yes

through GUI Scholar's Aid Yes Yes Yes Yes MHRA various[citation
needed]

SA format through GUI Sente format through GUI OSBIB WizFolio format (through GUI) CSL

Sente Wikindx WizFolio Zotero

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

BMJ, IEEE various 1600+ styles

[edit] Reference list file formats Software Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends Citavi CiteULike Connotea EndNote JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX Mendeley Papers Pybliographer HTML Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes LaTeX[13] No No Yes No No No No Yes No N/A No ? No No No ? ? RTF Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes Plain text Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes RSS ? Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes ? No Other No unAPI Atom, DOC, PDF, XML, No OpenOffice-CSV No clipboard clipboard, DOC, ODT, PDF PDF N/A clipboard, XML clipboard XML, PDF PDF, PS clipboard, embeddable HTML widget, RSS ? No

Depends Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes No Yes ? Yes

refbase RefDB Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid Sente Wikindx WizFolio Zotero

Yes Yes Yes ?

Yes ? No ?

Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes No

Yes No No ? Yes No No Yes No Yes

Markdown, PDF, unAPI DocBook, TEI clipboard ? DOC, ODT clipboard clipboard No clipboard, DOC clipboard

Partial[14] No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No

[edit] 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 Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends Microsoft Word No No No Yes No Yes Yes OpenOffice.org Kile/LyX Writer No No No No No Yes No No No Yes No No No No RTF scan[15] No No ? ? No ? Yes Other none none ? WordPerfect none none Mellel, Nisus OpenDocument Text scan, LEd, TeXnicCenter, TeXMaker, WinEdt, WinShell, WinTeX none none

Citavi

No

No

Yes

Yes

CiteULike Connotea

No No

No No

No No

No No

EndNote JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX Mendeley Papers Pybliographer Qiqqa refbase RefDB Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid

Yes

Yes

No Yes No Yes No ? Yes Yes No No No ? No No

Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes No ? ? Yes ?

Apple Pages '09 Emacs, Vim, WinEdt WordPerfect none NeoOffice Pages, Mellel, TextEdit; HTML none none PIRA, MediaWiki, SPIP none none ? none WordPro, WordPerfect, HWP Pages, Mellel, Nisus, TextEdit; HTML and plain text scan Integrated WYSIWYG word processor Google Docs, Zoho Writer NeoOffice, LibreOffice

Depends[16] Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes[17] No No ? No Yes

Sente

Yes

No

No

Yes

Wikindx WizFolio Zotero [edit] Database connectivity

No Yes Yes

No Yes Yes

No No (with LyZ)
[18]

Yes ? Yes

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 Aigaion Bebop ArXiv No No CiteSeer No No IEEE Xplore No No PubMed No No Other none No

BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends

Yes No Yes No Yes

Yes No Yes No No

No No Yes No No

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Web of Science, any Z39.50 or Entrez Import from integrated web browser various [14] none Web of Science, Amazon, Google Scholar, Z39.50 WorldCat/OCLC, Ovid, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of Science, Z39.50 (4000+ online resources) various [15] various [16] various [17] any Z39.50 ACM portal, Jstor, Spires various [18] BibSonomy, CiteBase, CSB, DBLP, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, SPIRES, Z MATH, Z39.50 various [19] ACM, ADS, Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR, MathSciNet, Project Muse, Scopus, Web of Science none GoogleScholar, JSTOR DOI lookup any Z39.50 various [20] ? various Z39.50 Z39.50, SRU, Web of Knowledge

Citavi

No

No

Yes

Yes

CiteULike Connotea EndNote JabRef Jumper 2.0

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

KBibTeX

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mendeley

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Papers

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Pybliographer Qiqqa refbase RefDB Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid Sente

No Yes Yes Yes No ? No No No

No No No No No ? No No No

No Yes No No No ? No No No

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes

Wikindx WizFolio Zotero

No Yes Yes

No No Yes

No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

none various [21] various [22]

[edit] 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)) Networking Software Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Biblioscape BibSonomy Bibus Bookends Citavi CiteULike Connotea EndNote[20] JabRef Jumper 2.0 KBibTeX Mendeley Papers Pybliographer Qiqqa refbase RefDB Passworded User-specific permissions[19] Simultaneous write access Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ? No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes[21] ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A No Yes Yes ? ? No No ? Yes N/A Yes N/A Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A No Yes Yes ? ? No Yes Yes Yes N/A Yes N/A Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes

Reference Manager Referencer RefWorks Scholar's Aid Sente Wikindx WizFolio Zotero [edit] References

Yes ? Yes No No Yes Yes Yes[22]

No ? ? N/A No Yes Yes Yes

Yes ? Yes N/A No Yes Yes Yes

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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.

2. ^ A developer kit is available. The community is invited to create plugins to access data off
databases

3. ^ A centrally-hosted website is available at refbase.net. 4. ^ a b The GUI requires gnome-python, which isn't available for Windows or OS X. 5. ^ Reference Manager is not compatible with word 2010 6. ^ The Write-N-Cite citation tool requires download & installation.[1] 7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Supported through the bibutils plugin 8. ^ Endnote cannot import directly BibTex files, but there are various methods to transform these
into the refer format, which may be imported [2]

9. ^ The DataRetriever module that imports and exports data is not compatible with Vista. 10. ^ a b Zotero can import references directly from the database after which this format is named,
although it cannot read the format itself.

11. ^ Ticket for ISI import support 12. ^ 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.

13. ^ This refers to the direct output of raw LaTeX (often in a format similar to the BibTeXgenerated .bbl files). Many programs can export BibTeX (see above table), which can then be processed into LaTeX.

14. ^ URLs aren't active links 15. ^ 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.

16. ^ JabRef can be integrated in Microsoft Word using bibtex4word.dot. 17. ^ 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 [3].

18. ^ The LyZ extension integrates Zotero with Lyx/Kile 19. ^ 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.

20. ^ Via EndNote Web 21. ^ via Mendeley Web 22. ^ via zotero.org
[edit] External links Several users' opinions:[23] 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

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Open source

Aigaion Bebop BibDesk Bibus Connotea JabRef KBibTeX Pybliographer refbase refdb Referencer Wikindx Zotero

Retail

Biblioscape Bookends Citavi EndNote Mendeley Papers Qiqqa Reference Manager Sente

Webbased

Aigaion Bebop BibSonomy CiteULike Connotea Mendeley Qiqqa refbase refdb RefWorks Wikindx WizFolio

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