Comparison of reference management software

The following tables compare notable reference management software. The comparison includes older applications that may no longer be supported, as well as actively-maintained software.

## General

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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 web applications), and;
* a centrally hosted website.

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BibBase | Christian Fritz  | 2005  | 2024-06-06  | ?  | Free for students / Paid plan for others  | No  | Proprietary | Centrally hosted website, intended for publication pages
BibDesk | BibDesk developers  | 2002-04  | 2024-10-18  | 1.9.6  | Free  | Yes  | BSD | BibTeX front-end + repository; Cocoa-based; integration with Spotlight
BibSonomy | University of Kassel | 2006-01  | 2024-01-08  | 4.1.0  | Free  | Yes  | AGPL, GPL, LGPL[1] | Centrally hosted website
Bookends | Sonny Software  | 1988 (Mac) / 1983 (Apple II+)  | 2023-05-06  | 14.2[2] | US$59.99[a] | No  | Proprietary | Desktop & iOS synced via iCloud, integrated web search, PDF download, auto-completion, Word plugin, BibTex support, PDF annotations stored as notes
Citavi | Lumivero  | 2006-02-13  | 2023-08-15  | 6.17.0.0  | US$89-1947[b] | No  | Proprietary | Data can be saved locally on the computer, or, for team access, in the Citavi Cloud or an intranet Microsoft SQL Server;[3] search databases from interface[4]
EndNote | Clarivate Analytics | 1988  | 2021-11-30  | 20.2.1  | US$299.95[a] | No  | Proprietary | The web version EndNote basic (formerly, EndNote Web) is free of charge
JabRef | JabRef developers  | 2003-11-29  | 2023-10-21  | 5.11  | Free  | Yes  | MIT license | Java BibTeX and BibLaTeX manager
KBibTeX | KBibTeX developers  | 2005-08  | 2020-04-26  | 0.9.2  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | BibTeX front-end, using the KDE Software Compilation
Mendeley | Elsevier | 2008-08  | 2020  | 1.19.8  | Free / Online storage free up to 2 GB / Additional storage space available  | No  | proprietary (OS API clients exist)  | Account required, Desktop & Web components, Windows, Linux, macOS (not macOS 11 Big Sur)
Paperpile | Stefan Washietl, Gregorgy Jordan, Andreas Gruber  | 2013  | Continually updated online  |  | US$2.99/month for academics, 9.99/month otherwise  | No  | Proprietary | Web-app, integrates with Google Docs, collaboration & sharing features, currently only on Google Chrome
Papers | ReadCube  | 2011-10  | 2023-04-04  | v.4.35.2224  | US$ 3/month for students, 5/month academics  | No  | Proprietary | Web-app, Desktop (MacOS, Windows), Mobile (iOS and Android). Microsoft Word and Google Docs add-in. Browser extension (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari)
refbase | refbase developers  | 2003-06-03  | 2014-02-28  | 0.9.6  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | Web-based for institutional repositories/self-archiving[5]
RefDB | refdb developers  | 2001-04-25  | 2022-02-13  | 1.0.3  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | Network-transparent; XML/SGML bibliographies
RefWorks | Ex Libris / ProQuest / Clarivate  | 2001  | 2024-07-09  | 4.6  | Institutional subscription  | No  | Proprietary | Web-based, browser-accessed, Word & Google Docs
Zotero | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at GMU | 2006  | 2024-08-26  | 7.0.3[6] | Free / Online storage free up to 300 MB / Additional storage space available  | Yes  | AGPL | Multi-platform desktop version with connectors for Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Web-based access to reference library also available through Zotero.org or through a personal cloud-based database folder on a user's computer (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).

## Operating system support

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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 | macOS | Linux | ChromeOS | BSD | Unix | iOS App | Android App | Windows App

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Bebop  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
BibBase  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | ?  | ?  | ?
BibDesk  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
BibSonomy  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | ?  | ?  | ?
Bookends  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Citavi  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
EndNote  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
KBibTeX  | Experimental  | Experimental  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Mendeley  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
(phased out as of March 15, 2021)[7] | No
(phased out as of March 15, 2021)[7] | No
Paperpile  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
(requires Chromium)  | No
(requires Chromium)  | Yes[8] | Yes[9] | No
Papers  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Pybliographer  | Partial[c] | Partial[c] | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
refbase  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
RefDB  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
RefWorks[10] | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | No
Zotero  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Intel only  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Third party[11] | No

## Export file formats

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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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Bebop  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | unAPI
BibBase  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
BibDesk  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Endnote XML, user customizable
BibSonomy  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Various[12]
Bookends  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Various user-customizable
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | NVivo and various others
EndNote  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Various[13]
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | BibTeXML, DocBook, HTML, OpenDocument for OO.o, RTF, SQL database, user-customizable
KBibTeX  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Depends[d] | Yes  | PDF, PostScript, HTML, XML, RTF
Mendeley  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Endnote XML
Paperpile  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | CSV,JSON
Papers  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | None
Pybliographer  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Ovid
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
RefWorks  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | RIS, BibTeX, Tab delimited or XML metadata
Zotero  | Yes  | Yes  | As of version 4.0[14] | Yes  | Yes  | COinS, CSV, Several RDF format standards, TEI, Wikipedia citation templates, Endnote XML, CSL JSON, Refer/BiblX, RefWorks tagged

## Import file formats

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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.

As of January 2021[update], CSL YAML is not supported by any reference management system.[15]

Software  | BibTeX | Copac | CSA | Endnote/Refer/BibIX | ISI | Medline | MODS XML | Ovid | PubMed | RIS | SciFinder | Other

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Bebop  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
BibBase  | 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
BibSonomy  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Firefox bookmarks
Bookends  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various user-customizable
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various
EndNote  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[16]
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | BibTexML, Biomail, Inspec, JSTOR, MSBib, PDF widh XMP annotations, REPEC (NEP), SilverPlatter, SixPack
KBibTeX  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Depends[d] | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | None
Mendeley  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Browser bookmarks
Paperpile  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | PDF, MARC
Papers  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | PDF
Pybliographer  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | None
refbase  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | RefWorks
RefDB  | Yes  | Yes[d] | No  | Yes[d] | Yes[d] | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[d] | MARC, risx
RefWorks  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[17]
Zotero  | Yes  | No[e] | No[e] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | COinS, MARC, RDF, unAPI, Browser bookmarks, Endnote XML, others[18]

## Citation styles

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Software  | APA | Chicago/Turabian | Harvard | MLA | Other  | Extension method

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Bebop  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
BibBase  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
BibDesk  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[19] | BibTeX style files (use Pandoc § CiteProc for CSL[20]) or BibDesk export templates[19]
BibSonomy  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Bookends  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[citation needed] | ?
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[21] | Citavi format (through GUI), includes conditions and programmable components;[21] BibTeX or BibLaTeX when used with LaTeX (use Pandoc § CiteProc for CSL[20])
EndNote  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[13] | EndNote format (through GUI)[13]
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various  | BibTeX style files or BibLaTeX (use Pandoc § CiteProc for CSL[20])
KBibTeX  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various  | BibTeX style files (use Pandoc § CiteProc for CSL[20])
Mendeley  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[22] | CSL[22]
Paperpile  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[22] | CSL[22]
Papers  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[22] | CSL; BibTeX or BibLaTeX when used with LaTeX[23]
Pybliographer  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | None  | Pybliographer XML
refbase  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various polar & marine journals  | PHP
RefDB  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | 21 biomedical & law journals[24] | XML (citestylex.dtd), interactive script
RefWorks  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various  | RefWorks format (through GUI);[25] CSL[22]
Zotero  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Various[22] | CSL;[22] BibTeX or BibLaTeX when used with LaTeX[26]

## Reference list file formats

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EndNote is incompatible with LaTeX. Among other things, it does not provide for robust citation keys.

Software  | HTML | LaTeX[f] | RTF | Plain text | RSS | Other

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Bebop  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | unAPI
BibBase  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
BibDesk  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Atom, DOC, PDF, XML,
BibSonomy  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | OpenOffice-CSV
Bookends  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Clipboard
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes[g] | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Clipboard, DOC, ODT, PDF, HTML
EndNote  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Clipboard, XML
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Clipboard
KBibTeX  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | PDF, PS
Mendeley  | Yes  | Yes[h] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Clipboard, embeddable HTML widget, RSS
Paperpile  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Clipboard
Papers  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | PDF
Pybliographer  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
refbase  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Markdown, PDF, unAPI
RefDB  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | DocBook, TEI
RefWorks  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | DOC, ODT
Zotero  | Yes  | Possible via plugin[28] | Yes  | Possible via plugins[29] | Yes  | Clipboard

## Word processor integration

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Some reference management software include support for automatic embedding and (re)formatting of references in Word processor programs. This table lists this type of support for Microsoft Word, Pages, Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice Writer, the LaTeX editors Kile and LyX, and Google Docs. Other programs are able to scan RTF or other textual formats for inserted placeholders which are subsequently formatted. Most reference management programs support copy/paste or drag-and-drop of references into any editor, but this is not meant here.

Software  | Word for Windows  | Word for Mac  | Word Online  | Pages  | Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice  | Kile/LyX  | Google Docs  | RTF scan[i] | Other

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Bebop  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
BibBase  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
BibDesk  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | User-created scripts
BibSonomy  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
Bookends  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Mellel, Nisus
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Only versions prior to 6.0  | Yes[30] | No  | Only versions prior to 6.0  | LaTeX editors Texmaker, TeXnicCenter, TeXstudio, TeXworks, WinEdt, WinShell
EndNote  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[31] | Yes  | No[32] | No  | Yes[33] | Yes  | No
JabRef  | Yes[34] | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes[35] | Yes  | No  | ?  | Emacs, Texmaker, TeXstudio, Vim, WinEdt
KBibTeX  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | None
Mendeley  | Yes  | Partial[j] | Yes[36] | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | NeoOffice
Paperpile  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Papers  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[37] | Yes[38] | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Manuscripts app, Scrivener, Ulysses
Pybliographer  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | None
refbase  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes[39] | No  | No  | Yes  | PIRA, MediaWiki, SPIP
RefDB  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | None
RefWorks  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | None
Zotero  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | (with LyZ)[40] | Yes  | Yes  | Various[41]

## Database connectivity

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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 | Unpaywall[k] | Other

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Bebop  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
BibBase  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | DBLP, Zotero, BibSonomy, Mendeley
BibDesk  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ACM portal, Jstor, DBLP, Google Scholar, Web of Science, any Z39.50 or Entrez, and others
BibSonomy  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Various[42]
Bookends  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Web of Science, Amazon, Google Scholar, Z39.50
Citavi  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | WorldCat/OCLC, Ovid, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of Science, Z39.50 (4500+ online resources), SRU. Further catalogs are added upon request. Browser plugins (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer) support DOI lookup, ISBN lookup, PubMed ID lookup, PMCID lookup, arXiv ID lookup, COinS and import from Wikipedia.
EndNote  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Various,[43] any Z39.50
JabRef  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[44] | ACM Portal, CrossRef, DBLP, DOAJ, DOI, GVK, Google Scholar, INSPIRE-HEP, Medline, MathSciNet, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, Springer, and zbMATH
KBibTeX  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | BibSonomy, CiteBase, CSB, DBLP, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, INSPIRE-HEP, Z MATH, Z39.50
Mendeley  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Various[45]
Paperpile  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Google Scholar, INSPIRE-HEP, ACM portal, Jstor, Web of Science
Papers  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Microsoft Academic, Google Scholar
Pybliographer  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | None
refbase  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | DOI lookup
RefDB  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Any Z39.50
RefWorks  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Various
Zotero  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[46] | Various[47]

## Password "protection" and network versions

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Some reference managers provide network functionality (N/A, not available, means the product has no networking, while "No" indicates it does but lacks an implemented feature). The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.[48]

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Bebop  | No  | ?  | —  | —
BibBase  | —  | ?  | —  | —
BibDesk  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No
BibSonomy  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Bookends  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Citavi  | Yes[m] | ?  | Yes  | Yes
EndNote  | Yes  | ?  | No[n] | No[n]
JabRef  | No  | ?  | No  | Partial
KBibTeX  | No  | ?  | —  | —
Mendeley  | Yes[o] | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Paperpile  | Yes[p] | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Papers  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes[49]
Pybliographer  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
refbase  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
RefDB  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
RefWorks  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes
Zotero  | Yes[q] | ?  | Yes  | Yes

## Discontinued software

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Software  | Developer  | First public release  | Latest stable release date  | Latest stable version  | Cost (USD)  | Free software | License  | Notes

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Bebop | ALaRI Institute | 2007-11-08  | 2009-11-10  | 1.1  | Free  | Yes  | BSD | Web-based BibTeX front-end (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
Biblioscape | CG Information  | 1997  | 2015-06-22  | 10.0.3.6  | US$79-299[a] | No  | Proprietary | ODBC; web access in Pro ed; optional client/server; discontinued?
CiteULike | Oversity Limited  | 2004-11  | Shut down on 2019-03-30[50] |  | Free  | No  | Proprietary[r] | Centrally hosted website
colwiz | colwiz Ltd  | 2011  | 2016-05-09  |  | Free / Online storage free up to 3 GB / Additional storage space available  | No  | Proprietary | Now combined with wizdom.ai
Pybliographer | pybliographer developers  | 1998-10-30 (0.2)  | 2018-04-03  | 1.4.0  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | Python/GTK2
Qiqqa | Qiqqa  | 2010-04  | 2020-10-04  | v80  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | From end 2020, Open Source
Reference Manager | Thomson Reuters | 1984  | 2010  | 12.0.3  | Not for sale anymore, sales ceased December 31, 2015  | No  | Proprietary | Network version; built-in web publishing tool; discontinued
Referencer | Referencer developers  | 2008-03-15  | Discontinued  | 1.2.2  | Free  | Yes  | GNU GPL | BibTeX front-end
RefME | RefME  | 2014  | Shut down in 2017  |  | Free  | No  | Proprietary | Web, iOS and Android; Chrome and Safari Extensions available; discontinued
SciRef | Scientific Programs  | 2012  | 2020-07-30  | 1.6.2  | US$38.90 / Free trial version  | No  | Proprietary
WizFolio | WizPatent  | 2008-06  | Shut down in 2017  | Avatara  | US$25 / Free Basic version  | No  | Proprietary | Centrally hosted website; discontinued

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c 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. ^ Price depends on affiliation (discounted price for students and members of academic, governmental, and nonprofit organizations), edition (Citavi for Windows for single users and teams with cloud storage, Citavi for DBServer for teams with intranet storage, Citavi Web with cloud storage), and, in the case of DBServer, on the license type (per seat license vs. concurrent license): "Products". www.citavi.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-27.
3. ^ a b The GUI requires gnome-python, which isn't available for Windows or macOS.
4. ^ a b c d e f Supported through the bibutils plugin.
5. ^ a b Zotero can import references directly from the database after which this format is named, although it cannot read the format itself.
6. ^ 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.[27]
7. ^ Database can be exported as a whole in BibTeX format. Text (i.e. thoughts, comments, and quotations) can be fed into a number of TeX editors in LaTeX code or UTF-8.
8. ^ Database can be exported as a whole in BibTeX format.Insert citations via citation key generated by Mendeley.
9. ^ Can reformat references in a properly saved RTF document, allowing limited use in OpenOffice.org Writer, StarOffice, FrameMaker, Microsoft Works, WordPad, WordPerfect, Google Docs and others.
10. ^ Requires the Mendeley Reference Manager desktop app for Mac open to choose references.
11. ^ Includes all the other databases and open access repositories.
12. ^ 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.
13. ^ Storage in Citavi cloud or, with special license, in Microsoft SQL Server in intranet.
14. ^ a b via EndNote basic (cloud based)
15. ^ via Mendeley Web.
16. ^ Uses Google Account.
17. ^ via zotero.org.
18. ^ A developer kit is available. The community is invited to create plugins to access data off databases.

## References

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1. ^ "dev.bibsonomy". BibSonomy.org. 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
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## Further reading

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* Gilmour, Ron; Cobus-Kuo, Laura (2011). "Reference management software: A comparative analysis of four products". Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Summer 2011 (66). doi:10.5062/F4Z60KZF.
* Perkel, Jeffrey M. (2015-11-02). "Eight ways to clean a digital library". Nature. 527 (7576): 123–124\. Bibcode:2015Natur.527..123P. doi:10.1038/527123a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26536960.123-124&rft.date=2015-11-02&rft_id=info:doi/10.1038/527123a&rft.issn=0028-0836&rft_id=info:pmid/26536960&rft_id=info:bibcode/2015Natur.527..123P&rft.aulast=Perkel&rft.aufirst=Jeffrey+M.&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.1038%2F527123a&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Comparison+of+reference+management+software" class="Z3988">
* Technische Universität München Library (2020-06-30). "Reference management software comparison — 8th update" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-02-03.
* Tramullas, Jesús; Sánchez-Casabón, Ana I.; Garrido-Picazo, Piedad (2015). "Studies and analysis of reference management software: A literature review". El Profesional de la Información. 25 (4): 680–688\. arXiv:1508.07480. Bibcode:2015arXiv150807480T. doi:10.3145/epi.2015.sep.17. ISSN 1699-2407. S2CID 11780810.680-688&rft.date=2015&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11780810#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:bibcode/2015arXiv150807480T&rft_id=info:arxiv/1508.07480&rft.issn=1699-2407&rft_id=info:doi/10.3145/epi.2015.sep.17&rft.aulast=Tramullas&rft.aufirst=Jesús&rft.au=Sánchez-Casabón,+Ana+I.&rft.au=Garrido-Picazo,+Piedad&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.3145%2Fepi.2015.sep.17&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Comparison+of+reference+management+software" class="Z3988">

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