JabRef
JabRef is an open-sourced, cross-platform citation and reference management software. It uses BibTeX and BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for LaTeX. The name JabRef stands for Java, Alver, Batada, Reference. The original version was released on November 29, 2003. JabRef provides an interface for editing BibTeX files, for importing data from online scientific databases, and for managing and searching BibTeX files. JabRef has been released under the terms of MIT license since version 3.6 (and was under the GPL license before). JabRef has a target audience of academics and many university libraries  have written guides on its usage. Features. The application is programmed in Java, and is maintained for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, it is available free of charge and is actively developed. Installation. Fresh development builds are available at builds.jabref.org and the latest stable release is available at FossHub. For Unix-like operating systems, it is also common for JabRef to be available through the default package manager. On Windows, JabRef offers an installer which also creates shortcuts for running the JAR file. Dependencies. Since version 3.6, JabRef is licensed under the MIT license. JabRef includes libraries, fonts and  icons distributed under different licenses by the JavaFX, PDFBox, OpenOffice.org, Jakarta, Apache Tika, Apache Commons, JSoup, ANTLR and Google Guava projects.