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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Reference Management Tools

Reference management software is software for academics and authors to use to record and use bibliographic citations.

BibLaTeX provides advanced bibliographic facilities for use with LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX. It’s free and open source software.

I, Librarian is a free and open-source web app to build an annotated library of scientific PDF articles, optimized for users and groups.

Docear (“dog-ear”) is an academic literature suite. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature.

Zotero is a tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. At the most basic level, it’s a citation manager.

JabRef is a graphical Java application for editing BibTeX (.bib) databases. The application does not use an internal file format.

KBibTeX is a bibliography editor and shell for KDE and Kile. Its main purpose is to provide a user-friendly interface to BibTeX files.