Free online bibliographic databases software for mac

JabRef 2.6b2 comes as a creative and useful graphical application which is designed to help manage bibliographical databases. JabRef is designed specifically for BibTeX bases, but can import and export many other bibliographic formats. JabRef runs on all platforms and requires Java 1.5 or newer.

BibTeXtoWord 1.0 is a program that help users using MS Word control the bibliographic references in the papers users are writing. For those who are unfamiliar with LaTeX and bibtex let me explain how bibtex is used: The bibliographic references are contained in a .bib file which is simply a text file. Each entry in this data base is uniquely identified by a cite-key, which can be arbitrary with the exclusion of a few special characters.

When you want to cite a bibliographic reference in LaTeX you enter the command verb!cite{abc}! in your file, which is called the source file, where cq{abc} is the cite-key. When bibtex is called, it reads the cite-keys, looks up the corresponding references, sorts the references alphabetically and by year, replaces the cite-keys with the corresponding labels and prints a list of references at the end of your document. These changes do not take place in your source file but in the compiled output file which is nowadays a pdf file. References that should be part of the publications list but should not be referred to in the text have to be entered as verb!nocite{abc}! in the source file.

Requirements:

You need OS 10.5 or better and in addition

• A TeXLive installation; I recommend TeXLive 2008.
• TeXShop
• Flashmode
• Local Switcher

cb2Bib is a program that reads the clipboard text contents and process it against a set of predefined patterns.
If this automatic detection is successful, cb2Bib formats the clipboard data according to the structured BibTeX reference standard.
Otherwise, if no predefined format pattern is found or if detection proves to be difficult, manual data extraction is greatly simplified by cb2Bib. In most cases, such manual data extraction will provide with a new, personalized pattern to be included within the predefined pattern set for future automatic extractions.
Once the bibliographic reference is correctly extracted, it is added to a specified BibTeX database file. Optionally, article PDF files, if available, are renamed to its citeID and moved to a desired directory as a personal article library.

System requirements:
- Trolltechs Qt/Mac 3.3 C++ framework - a download link for a binary installer of the GPL/QPL-edition of Qt/Mac 3.3.4 is included with the installer, BibTeX.

Enhancements
- 2009-05-30 Updated configure script (Thanks to F. Rusconi)
- 2009-05-23 Added module c2bCiter and command line action --citer
- 2009-05-23 Set cb2Bib not to process clipboard updates if main panel is closed
- 2009-05-23 Set standard shortcuts to conform to users desktop
- 2009-05-23 Improved to ASCII conversion and collation algorithm
- 2009-05-20 Added example query using HTML to text conversion in netqinf.txt
- 2009-05-20 Added pre-process script med2bib (Thanks to F. Rusconi)
- 2009-05-20 Pre and post process scripts cleanup (Thanks to F. Rusconi)
- 2009-05-17 Fixed wrong display of proper names for BibTeX files written in reverse order
- 2009-05-17 Improved abstract and keywords heuristics (Thanks to J. P. Eckmann)
- 2009-05-17 Cleanup command line messages, fixed wrong mention on temporary files deletion
- 2009-05-17 Convenience script dl_cb2bib renamed to c2bimport
- 2009-05-10 Improved document to text conversions, removal of non-textual symbols
- 2009-05-10 Fixed set initial references.bib to users home directory
- 2009-05-10 Made temporary file names dependent on cb2Bib session
- 2009-05-10 Fixed a regression on Windows uninstaller not deleting install directories
- 2009-05-10 Added convenience shell wrapper c2bconsole on Windows

DataBib provides tools to catalogue bibliographical records exploiting an underlying SQL database.
Entries can be directly imported from BibTex files and user-defined lists of references can be exported as BibTex files ready for the LaTex enviroment.

Enhancements
- Several bug fixed.
- Export dialog completely renewed.
- Several improvements in the GUI composition.