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 webapps)
 centrally-hosted website

First Latest
Open
Software Developer public stable Cost (USD) License Notes
source
release version
centrally-hosted
2007- website, no
2collab Elsevier ? Free No proprietary
11 longer accepting
new accounts
2.1.2
Aigaion 2005-
Aigaion (2009-03- Free Yes GPL web-based
developers 01
12)
web-based
ALaRI 2007- 1.1 (2009-
Bebop Free Yes BSD BibTeX front-
Institute 11-08 11-10)
end
BibDesk 2002- 1.5.2 BibTeX front-
BibDesk Free Yes BSD
developers 04 (2010-06) end + repository
ODBC; web
CG 8.01 (May access in Pro ed;
Biblioscape 1998 US$79-299[1] No proprietary
Information 8, 2009) optional
client/server
University of 2006- centrally-hosted
BibSonomy ? Free No proprietary
Kassel 01 website
Bibus 2004- 1.5.0
Bibus Free Yes GPL
developers 06-03 (2009–10)
1988
integrated web
(Mac) / 10.4.3
Sonny search, pdf
Bookends 1983 (2009-1- US$99[1] No proprietary
Software download, auto-
(Apple 15)
completion
II+)
Oversity 2004- centrally-hosted
CiteULike ? Free No proprietary[2]
Limited 11 website
Nature 1.7.1 centrally-hosted
2004-
Connotea Publishing (2006-02- Free Yes GPL website, web-
12
Group 01) based
Includes
Thomson X4.0.1
EndNote 1988 US$299.95[1] No proprietary EndNote Web
Reuters (2010)
account
2.6.0
JabRef 2003- Java BibTeX
JabRef (2010-04- Free Yes GPL
developers 11-29 manager
10)
2.0.1.1
Jumper
Jumper 2.0 2009-3 (2009-3- Free Yes GPL web-based
Networks
26)
BibTeX font-
0.2.3
KBibTeX 2005- end, using the
KBibTeX (2009-09- Free Yes GPL
developers 08 KDE Software
05)
Compilation
0.9.8.1 US$4.99-
(October 9.99 per proprietary(OS Desktop & Web
2008-
Mendeley Mendeley 11, 2010; 3 month[1] / No API clients components,
08
months Free "Earth" exist) iPhone and iPad
ago) account
search
repositories from
1.9.6
interface;
Papers Mekentosj 2007 (2010-12- US$42[1] No proprietary
supports plug-
12)
ins, Universal
iOS app
Pybliographer pybliographer 0.2 1.2.14 Free Yes GPL Python/GTK2
developers (1998- (2010-10-
 10-30) 14)
Desktop;
Qiqqa Qiqqa 2010 2010 Free No proprietary centrally hosted
website
web-based for
0.9.5
refbase 2003- institutional
refbase (2008-11- Free Yes GPL
developers 06-03 repositories/self-
19)
archiving[3]
network-
0.9.9
refdb 2001- transparent;
RefDB (2007-11- Free Yes GPL
developers 04-25 XML/SGML
05)
bibliographies
network version
Reference Thomson available; built-
1984 11.0.1 US$239.95[1] No proprietary
Manager Reuters in web
publishing tool
1.1.6
Referencer BibTeX front-
Referencer  ? (2009-08- Free Yes GPL
developers end
02)
US$100 per centrally-hosted
RefWorks RefWorks 2001 2010-05 No proprietary
year website
[1]
US$149 /
Scholar's Aid, 4.1 (2008-
Scholar's Aid 1998 Free Lite No proprietary
Inc. 4-1)
version
Third Street 6.0.26
Sente 2004 US$129.95[1] No proprietary
Software, Inc. (2009)
3.8.2
Mark 2004-
Wikindx (2008-02- Free Yes GPL web-based
Grimshaw 02
06)
DragonBall
2008- US$25 / Free centrally-hosted
WizFolio WizPatent (July 5, No proprietary
06 Basic version website
2010)
Firefox
Center for 2.0.9 extension; stand-
History and 2006- (October 13,
Zotero Free Yes GPL alone and other
New Media at 10-05 2010; 3 months
ago) browsers in
GMU
alpha

[edit] Operating system support

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 Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix

2collab N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Aigaion Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bebop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BibDesk No Yes No No No
Biblioscape Yes No No No No
BibSonomy N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Bibus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bookends No Yes No No No
CiteULike N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Connotea Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EndNote Yes[4] Yes No No No
JabRef Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Jumper 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KBibTeX No No Yes Yes Yes
Mendeley Yes Yes Yes No No
Papers No Yes No No No
Pybliographer Partial[5] Partial[5] Yes Yes Yes
 Qiqqa Yes No No No No
refbase Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RefDB Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Reference Manager Yes[6] No No No No
Referencer No No Yes No No
RefWorks N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Scholar's Aid Yes No No No No
Sente No Yes No No No
Wikindx Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WizFolio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zotero Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

[edit] Export file formats

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.

MODS

Software BibTeX Endnote/Refer/BibIX Medline RIS Other

XML
2collab Yes No No No Yes CSV [3]
Aigaion Yes No No No Yes none
Bebop Yes No No No No unAPI
Endnote XML,
BibDesk Yes No Yes Yes Yes user
customizable
Biblioscape Yes Yes Yes No Yes none
BibSonomy Yes Yes No No Yes various [4]
Bibus Yes Yes Yes No Yes SQLite
various user-
Bookends Yes Yes Yes No Yes
customizable
COinS,
CiteULike Yes No No No Yes
Delicious
Connotea Yes Yes No Yes Yes RDF
EndNote Yes Yes Yes No Yes various [5]
BibTeXML,
DocBook,
JabRef Yes Yes No Yes Depends[6] OpenDocument
for OO.o, user-
customizable
various [7],
Jumper 2.0 Yes Yes No Yes Yes user-
customizable
PDF,
KBibTeX Yes Yes No Depends[7] Yes PostScript,
HTML, XML
Mendeley Yes Yes No No Yes Endnote XML
Bookends,
Papers Yes Yes No No Yes CSV, Endnote
XML, PDF
Pybliographer Yes Yes Yes No No Ovid
Qiqqa Yes No No No No none
COinS,
OpenDocument
for OO.o, SRW
refbase Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XML via SRU,
unAPI, Word
XML
RefDB Yes Yes No Yes Yes SRW XML via
 SRU web
service,
DocBook, TEI
MEDLARS,
TSV, CSV,
Reference
Reference Manager Yes No No No Yes
Manager XML,
user-
customizable
Referencer Yes ? ? ? ? ?
RefWorks Yes No No No Yes various [8]
user-
Scholar's Aid No ? No No No
customizable
user-
Sente Yes Yes No No Yes
customizable
Wikindx Yes Yes No No Yes COinS
WizFolio No No No No Yes No
RDF,
Wikipedia
Zotero Yes Yes No Yes Yes
citation
templates

[edit] Import file formats

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.

MODS
Software BibTeX Copac CSA Endnote/Refer/Bi ISI Medline Ovid PubMed RIS SciFinder Other
XML
bIX
IE and
Firefox
2collab No No No No No No No No No Yes No
bookmar
ks [9]
Aigaion Yes No No No No No No No No Yes No none
Bebop Yes No No No No No No No No No No none
MARC,
JSTOR,
BibDesk Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Referenc
e Miner
Bibliosca
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
pe
Firefox
BibSono
Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No bookmar
my
ks
Bibus Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No none
various
[10];
Bookends Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes user-
customiz
able
Citavi Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes various
CiteULik
Yes No No No No No No No No Yes No none
e
Firefox
Connotea Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No bookmar
ks
EndNote No[8] No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes various
 [11]
BibTex
ML,
Bibliosca
pe,
Biomail,
Inspec,
JabRef Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
JSTOR,
REPEC
(NEP),
SilverPla
tter,
SixPack
Firefox
Jumper
Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No bookmar
2.0
ks
Depend
KBibTeX Yes No No Yes No No No Yes Yes No none
s[7]
Browser
Mendeley Yes No No Yes No No No No No Yes No bookmar
ks
Endnote
ENW,
Endnote
Papers Yes No No No No No No No No Yes No XML,
CHM
eBook,
PDF
Pybliogra
Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No none
pher
Qiqqa Yes No No No No No No No No No No none
RefWork
refbase Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
s
MARC,
RefDB Yes Yes[7] No Yes[7] Yes[7] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes[7]
risx
various
[12];
Reference
Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes user-
Manager
customiz
able
Reference
Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes No none
r
various
RefWorks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
[13]
Scholar's
No No No Yes ? Yes No No Yes ? No  ?
Aid[9]
Dublin
Core,
Marc21
Sente Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes SUTRS,
JSTOR,
SilverPla
tter
User
Depends Depen Depend Yes[citation Yes[citat plug-
Wikindx Yes [7] No Yes[citation needed] No No No
ds[7] s[7] needed] ion needed]
ins[citation
needed]

Internet
Browser
WizFolio No No No No No No No No No Yes No
bookmar
ks [14]
Zotero Yes No[10] No[10] Yes Partial[ No Yes Partial[1 Partial(dir Yes No COinS,
11] 1]
ectly from MARC,
webpage, RDF,
not from unAPI
 saved
files)[11]

[edit] Citation styles

Extension

Software APA Chicago/Turabian Harvard MLA Other

method
2collab ? ? ? ? ? ?
Aigaion Yes Yes Yes Yes BMJ, IEEE OSBIB
Bebop No No No No none none
BibDesk export
BibDesk Yes No No No various
templates
2000+
Biblioscape Yes Yes Yes Yes styles[citation GUI style editor
needed]

BibSonomy Yes No Yes No none none

user- bibus format
Bibus Yes No No No
contributed (through GUI)
various[citation
Bookends Yes Yes Yes Yes needed] ?
Citavi format
Citavi Yes Yes Yes Yes various
(through GUI)
various[citation
CiteULike Yes Yes Yes Yes needed] none
Connotea ? ? ? ? ? ?
EndNote format
EndNote Yes Yes Yes Yes various
(through GUI)
any BibTeX
JabRef Yes Yes Yes Yes BibTeX
style
Jumper 2.0 No No No No none none
any BibTeX
KBibTeX Yes Yes Yes Yes BibTeX
style
Mendeley Yes Yes Yes Yes various CSL
Papers No No No No No No
Pybliographer
Pybliographer Yes No No No none
XML
any BibTeX
Qiqqa Yes Yes Yes Yes BibTeX
style
various polar
refbase Yes Yes Yes Yes & marine PHP
journals
Various XML
RefDB Yes Yes Yes Yes biomedical & (citestylex.dtd),
law journals interactive script
Reference Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes various ?
Referencer ? ? ? ? ? ?
RefWorks
RefWorks Yes Yes Yes Yes various format through
GUI
SA format
Scholar's Aid Yes Yes Yes Yes MHRA
through GUI
various[citation Sente format
Sente Yes Yes Yes Yes needed]
through GUI
Wikindx Yes Yes Yes Yes BMJ, IEEE OSBIB
WizFolio format
WizFolio Yes Yes Yes Yes various
(through GUI)
Zotero Yes Yes Yes Yes various CSL

[edit] Reference list file formats

 Plain text
Software HTML LaTeX[12] RTF RSS Other
 2collab Yes No No Yes Yes No
Aigaion Yes No Yes Yes ? No
Bebop Yes No No No Yes unAPI
BibDesk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Atom, DOC, PDF, XML,
Biblioscape Yes No Yes Yes No No
BibSonomy Yes No Yes Yes Yes OpenOffice-CSV
Bibus Yes No No No No No
Bookends Yes No Yes Yes No clipboard
Citavi Yes Yes Yes Yes No clipboard, DOC, ODT, PDF
CiteULike Yes No Yes Yes Yes PDF
Connotea N/A N/A N/A N/A Yes N/A
EndNote Yes No Yes Yes No clipboard, XML
JabRef Yes ? Depends Yes No clipboard
Jumper 2.0 Yes No Yes Yes Yes XML, PDF
KBibTeX Yes No Yes No No PDF,PS
clipboard, embeddable
Mendeley Yes Yes[citation needed] Yes Yes Yes
HTML widget, RSS
Papers ? ? ? ? ? ?
Pybliographer Yes ? No Yes No No
refbase Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Markdown, PDF, unAPI
RefDB Yes ? Yes Yes No DocBook, TEI
Reference Manager Yes No No Yes No No
Referencer ? ? ? ? ? ?
RefWorks Partial[13] No Yes Yes Yes DOC, ODT
Scholar's Aid No No Yes Yes No clipboard
Sente Yes No Yes Yes No clipboard
Wikindx Yes No Yes No Yes No
WizFolio Yes No Yes Yes No clipboard, DOC
Zotero Yes No Yes No Beta clipboard

[edit] Word processor integration

Most reference management software supports copy/paste or drag-and-drop of references into any editor. Some
reference management software includes further support for automatic embedding and (re)formatting of
references in some programs. This table lists support for the latter for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org
Writer and the LaTeX editors Kile and LyX. Other programs are able to scan RTF or other textual formats to
insert references.

Microsoft OpenOffice.org RTF scan[14]

Software Kile/LyX Other
Word Writer
2collab ? ? ? ? ?
Aigaion No No No No none
Bebop No No No No none
BibDesk No No Yes ? ?
Biblioscape Yes No No ? WordPerfect
BibSonomy No No No No none
Bibus Yes Yes No ? none
Bookends Yes No No Yes Mellel, Nisus
LEd, TeXnicCenter,
Citavi No No Yes Yes TeXMaker, WinEdt,
WinShell, WinTeX
CiteULike No No No No none
Connotea No No No No none
EndNote Yes Yes No ? Apple Pages '09
JabRef Depends[15] Partial[16] Yes ? Emacs, Vim, WinEdt
Jumper 2.0 Yes Yes No ? WordPerfect
KBibTeX No No Yes ? none
Mendeley Yes Yes No ? NeoOffice
 Pages, Mellel, TextEdit;
Papers Yes Yes ? ?
HTML
Pybliographer No Yes Yes ? none
Qiqqa Yes No Yes No none
refbase No Yes[16] No Yes PIRA, MediaWiki, SPIP
RefDB No No No No none
Reference Manager Yes No No ? none
Referencer ? ? ? ? ?
RefWorks Yes No No Yes none
WordPro, WordPerfect,
Scholar's Aid Yes Yes No ?
HWP
Pages, Mellel, Nisus,
Sente Yes No No Yes TextEdit; HTML and plain
text scan
Integrated WYSIWYG
Wikindx No No No Yes
word processor
WizFolio Yes Yes No ? Google Docs, Zoho Writer
Zotero Yes Yes (with LyZ)[17] Yes NeoOffice, LibreOffice

[edit] Database connectivity

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.

IEEE Xplore
Software ArXiv CiteSeer PubMed Other
2collab ? ? ? ? ?
Aigaion No No No No none
Bebop No No No No No
Web of Science, any Z39.50 or
BibDesk Yes Yes No Yes
Entrez
Biblioscape No No No Yes Import from integrated web browser
BibSonomy Yes Yes Yes Yes various [15]
Bibus No No No Yes none
Web of Science, Amazon, Google
Bookends Yes No No Yes
Scholar, Z39.50
OvidSP, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of
Citavi No No Yes Yes
Science, Z39.50
CiteULike Yes Yes Yes Yes various [16]
Connotea Yes Yes No Yes various [17]
EndNote No No No Yes various [18]
JabRef Yes Yes Yes Yes none
Jumper 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes various [19]
BibSonomy, CiteBase, CSB, DBLP,
KBibTeX Yes Yes Yes Yes Google Scholar, ScienceDirect,
SPIRES, Z MATH, Z39.50
Mendeley Yes Yes Yes Yes various [20]
ACM, ADS, Google Books, Google
Papers Yes Yes Yes Yes Scholar, JSTOR, MathSciNet, Project
Muse, Scopus, Web of Science
Pybliographer No No No Yes none
Qiqqa Yes No Yes Yes GoogleScholar, JSTOR
refbase Yes No No Yes DOI lookup
RefDB Yes No No Yes any Z39.50
Reference Manager No No No Yes various [21]
Referencer ? ? ? ? ?
RefWorks No No No Yes various
Scholar's Aid No No No Yes Z39.50
 Sente No No No Yes Z39.50, SRU, Web of Knowledge
Wikindx No No No Yes none
WizFolio Yes No Yes Yes various [22]
Zotero Yes Yes Yes Yes various [23]

[edit] Password "protection" and network versions

Some reference managers provide network functionality. (N/A means the product has no networking, while
"no" indicates it does (but lacks an implemented feature))

Networking
Software Passworded
User-specific permissions[18] Simultaneous write access
2collab Yes No ?
Aigaion Yes Yes Yes
Bebop No N/A N/A
BibDesk Yes No No
Biblioscape Yes Yes Yes
BibSonomy Yes Yes Yes
Bibus ? ? ?
Bookends ? ? ?
Citavi No No No
CiteULike Yes No Yes
Connotea Yes ? Yes
EndNote No No No
JabRef No N/A N/A
Jumper 2.0 Yes Yes Yes
KBibTeX No N/A N/A
Mendeley Yes Yes Yes
Papers ? ? ?
Pybliographer ? ? ?
Qiqqa Yes Yes Yes
refbase Yes Yes Yes
RefDB Yes Yes Yes
Reference Manager Yes No Yes
Referencer ? ? ?
RefWorks Yes ? Yes
Scholar's Aid No N/A N/A
Sente No No No
Wikindx Yes Yes Yes
WizFolio Yes Yes Yes
Zotero No Yes Yes