BibTeX Tools & Resources

Reference managers

• Zotero is a free, open-source reference manager for all platforms. It collects references from the browser and exports .bib files. With the Better BibTeX plugin, it keeps a .bib file and stable citation keys in sync automatically.
• JabRef is a free, open-source reference manager that uses BibTeX as its native format.
• BibDesk is a free BibTeX manager for macOS.

Editors

• Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor that runs BibTeX and biber for you and can import references from Zotero and Mendeley.
• TeXstudio is a free LaTeX editor with BibTeX support built in.
• LaTeX Workshop is the LaTeX extension for Visual Studio Code, with citation completion from .bib files.

Processors

• BibTeX is included in every TeX distribution (TeX Live, MiKTeX, MacTeX).
• biblatex and biber are the modern alternative for bibliographies in LaTeX.
• Pandoc formats citations from .bib files in Markdown, Word and HTML documents.

Utilities

• DOI → BibTeX looks up BibTeX entries by DOI or arXiv ID, right here on bibtex.org.
• bibtex-tidy cleans and formats .bib files and removes duplicates, in the browser or on the command line.
• BibTool is a command-line tool to sort, merge, normalize and extract .bib files.

Documentation

• BibTeXing by Oren Patashnik is the original user documentation (texdoc btxdoc).
• Tame the BeaST by Nicolas Markey is a thorough guide to BibTeX, including how to write styles.
• The biblatex manual is the reference for everything biblatex.