🌞 JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6 released! 🌞
We are thrilled to announce a new alpha version! The version is formally an alpha but stable enough for usage.
Highlights:
- Revamped notifications and pop-up
- Improved generation and handling of inserted citations in LibreOffice
- Improved inspections for #biblatex and #bibtex
https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/
#javafx #bibliography #academia #citations #TexLatex #academic #opensource #research
We are excited that we are participating in #GSOC2026 with 3 projects:
- "Improved handling of older documents with OCR and AI-powered tools."
- "Improved #LibreOffice -JabRef integration" with one particular aspect of compatibility with other reference managers.
- "Improving startup times for JabKit" by leveraging the power of #GraalVM
#javafx #jabref #academia #bibtex #TexLatex #opensource #bibliography
cc @frankdelporte @foojay
Any LaTeX experts around who can tell me how to fix the rendering of this BibTex citation?
The parentheses in the author's name seems so not get handled correctly, but I can't find how to include those properly. The parentheses are in the original author listing of the paper so I think they should be included.
(bibtex code: https://pastebin.com/cc5C0rLB)
One task that staff & students outsource to #llmchatbots is transforming #BibTex from a publisher website or library catalogue into particular academic citation styles. To save resources, we can look into alternatives like Chris Proctor's pybtex-apa7-style #Python plugin for #APA7. I have adapted his plugin in a script with widgets for reuse in Colab:
https://github.com/MonikaBarget/DigitalHistory/blob/master/BibTex_conversion.ipynb
Maybe this is of help to others. MLA & other citation styles have no pybtex plugins yet, but this may still change. 🤞🏼
@parleur
#Zotero c'est très pratique. En fait ça te permet de recenser tes références bibliographiques (grâce au DOI, aujourd'hui c'est très facile de rentrer les références).
Grâce à un plugin sur Libre Office, tu vas pouvoir appeler une référence recensée dans Zotero, par exemple (Auteur, Date).
Ta liste des références biblio appelées dans le texte sera générée automatiquement, selon le style que tu souhaites.
Par contre si un jour tu rédiges plutôt sous #LateX c'est plutôt JabRef qui est compatible pour un usage avec #BibteX.
Je ne sais pas si je suis très claire 😅 mais n'hésite pas si tu veux en savoir plus.
The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing
A JabRef contributor wrote this nice article for his university course:
https://kai505.medium.com/the-invisible-infrastructure-of-academic-publishing-48772c9606f8
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