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JabRef e.V.

Stay on top of your Literature

JabRef is one of the most widely used citation and reference management tools. It helps students and researchers to stay on top of their literature by assisting at every step of a research project: collecting and organizing literature sources, discovering the latest research, citing references in LaTeX and other text editors, and sharing interesting papers with collaborators. JabRef is open-source and cross-platform. It is written in Java using JavaFX as the user interface technology. It is licensed under the MIT license. Since 2020 JabRef is maintained by the non-profit organization JabRef e.V.

java
javafx
ai
bibtex

science
library
literature
latex
bibliography

Project ideas

10 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. Sizes: 2 small, 4 medium, 3 large. 7 mentors named.

Improved Journal Abbreviations small
Improved LibreOffice-JabRef integration large
Improve handling of older documents by OCR and AI small
JabRef components as native images medium
Use PostgreSQL as full GUI data backend for JabRef medium
Improved SLR Support medium
Sync with Zotero Storage medium
More Generic Preferences large
JabTUI - the terminal UI for JabRef large
{Your own project}

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2019, 6 years. Projects per year: '19: 1, '21: 2, '22: 1, '24: 3, '25: 3, '26: 3.

On GitHub

25 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Java (4), JavaScript (4), Shell (4), CSS (2), TeX (2), TypeScript (2).

Links and channels

Website: https://www.jabref.org/
Ideas page: https://jabref.github.io/GSoC/projects/
Contributor guide: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/GSOC-Application
Source code: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref
Chat: http://gitter.im/JabRef/jabref
Mailing list: https://discourse.jabref.org/

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "JabRef e.V." --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "JabRef e.V."
git-into-gsoc issues --org "JabRef e.V."

or ask your assistant:
"Which JabRef e.V. repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

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