🌞 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

@foojay @frankdelporte

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)

#TexLaTex #BibTex

Organise your bibliography with #JabRef https://statatexblog.com/?p=284 #bibtex
Organise your bibliography with JabRef – StataTex Blog

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. 🤞🏼

DigitalHistory/BibTex_conversion.ipynb at master · MonikaBarget/DigitalHistory

This repository contains simple code in Python to help historians prepare data for quantitative analysis & visualization. Visit the following links for further explanations: https://dhlab.hypot...

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@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.

Economics journals BibTex styles (.bst) #bibtex #latex https://bit.ly/3rmpkDS
Economics journals BibTex styles (.bst) – StataTex Blog

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

#texlatex #jabref #bibtex #academia #bibliography

The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing

Behind every bibliography is a system most researchers never think about.

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@ros Nice write-up. #JabRef supports both #bibtex and #biblatex
Collection of resources for getting into LaTeX, #beamertex, #bibtex and more https://www.statatexblog.com/latex-resources/
LaTeX Resources – StataTex Blog