cb2Bib is a bibliography management application specialising in extracting references from information that does not follow a standard bibliographic format. It is particularly useful when collecting references from journal websites, email notifications, PDF documents and other sources containing unstructured citation information.
The software processes selected text and attempts to identify authors, publication titles, journal details and other bibliographic fields. Extracted information can then be reviewed, corrected and saved as a structured BibTeX reference.
cb2Bib also offers tools for managing collections of academic documents. Its workflow combines reference extraction, file organisation, searching and citation insertion, making it useful for researchers maintaining substantial libraries of scientific papers.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Extract bibliographic references from clipboard text using predefined recognition patterns.
- Process references copied from journal websites, email alerts and PDF documents.
- Create and edit custom regular expressions for recognising bibliographic information.
- Automatically convert recognised references into BibTeX entries.
- Retrieve additional citation metadata through network queries to services including Crossref, PubMed and arXiv.
- Extract multiple references from PDF documents.
- Associate PDF files with references using drag-and-drop operations.
- Automatically rename and organise attached documents according to configurable patterns.
- Read and write bibliographic metadata in supported document files.
- Search BibTeX collections and the full text of associated documents.
- Contextual searching with stemming and relevance ranking.
- Document indexing and keyword extraction for exploring related research material.
- Built-in BibTeX editor with reference browsing and export facilities.
- Generate citation identifiers and insert references into documents.
- Create linked research notes and convert them to HTML.
Website: www.molspaces.com/cb2bib
Support:
Developer: Pere Constans
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
cb2Bib is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| GUI Bibliography Tools | |
|---|---|
| Zotero | Powerful online/offline research tool |
| KBibTeX | Reference management software primarily for BibTeX |
| JabRef | Graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases |
| Paperlib | Academic paper management tool |
| cb2Bib | Extract bibliographic references from various sources |
| Citations | Manage your bibliographies using the BibTeX format |
| QuickBib | Fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers |
| Pybliographer | Tool for manipulating bibliographic databases |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 LinuxLinks helps you discover the best free and open source software for Linux. Explore our extensive collection of recommended applications, including alternatives to popular proprietary software.We also publish software reviews, Linux tutorials, hardware reviews, free programming books and articles covering the wider open source community. Browse our Linux resources to discover more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application we haven't covered? Suggest a program for inclusion. Has your software been featured on LinuxLinks? Display one of our Featured on LinuxLinks badges on your website or GitHub README. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.