KBibTeX is a bibliography management application designed for users working with BibTeX and LaTeX documents. It provides a graphical environment for creating, editing and maintaining bibliographic databases without requiring every reference to be entered manually in BibTeX syntax.
The application is particularly suited to scientific and technical writing, where BibTeX remains a common way of maintaining citations. KBibTeX integrates with the KDE desktop and complements LaTeX editors such as Kile and LyX.
Its interface combines a reference list, editing controls, previews and online search facilities. Users can maintain local bibliographies, retrieve information from academic databases and inspect the results before including references in their documents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create and edit BibTeX bibliography files through a graphical interface.
- Manage standard reference types including articles, books, proceedings and theses.
- Import bibliographic data from BibTeX, RIS and other supported formats.
- Export references to formats including HTML, RTF, PDF and PostScript using appropriate conversion tools.
- Search online academic databases including Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and arXiv.
- Preview individual references as BibTeX, RIS, Wikipedia citations or formatted XML/XSLT output.
- Display local and remote PDF documents associated with bibliography entries.
- Detect and merge duplicate references in a bibliography.
- Import bibliographic records from a Zotero library.
- Edit BibTeX preambles, comments and file encoding settings.
- Integrate bibliographic databases with LaTeX editing workflows.
- Use KDE’s graphical interface for navigating and managing reference collections.
Website: apps.kde.org/en-gb/kbibtex
Support:
Developer: Thomas Fischer and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
KBibTeX is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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