Reference Management Applications for MacOSX
One of the neat things about having the search box on each page is I can see what visitors have been looking for. Amongst the expected searches for structure drawing or molecular modelling packages I was suprised to find that one of the top search terms was for reference management software. I had a quick look around and I could not find a list of MacOSX applications so I thought I'd create one in a similar fashion to the listing of data analysis packages. As usual click on the titles to sort the columns. Updated 30 April 2008.
| Application | Price | Link | Import | Export | Citation Format | Word Processor linking | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aigaion | $0 | http://www.aigaion.nl/ | BibTeX and RIS | BibTeX and RIS | html,txt,rtf | None | Web-based |
| Bibdesk | $0 | http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ | BibTeX, ISI, JSTOR and PubMed, SciFinder | BibTeX, RIS, HTML, MODS XML, EndNote XML, Atom XML, RSS, Amsref LTB, RTF, Word .doc | HTML, RSS, RTF, .doc | None | BibTeX editor, Applescript support, current version requires Tiger |
| Bibus | $0 | http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page | BibTeX, EndNote,ISI,Medline and RIS | BibTeX, Endnote and RIS | html,txt | MS Word, OpenOffice | PubMed and eTBLAST queries |
| Bookends | $99 | http://www.sonnysoftware.com/aboutbookends.html | BibTeX, EndNote | BibTeX, Endnote | txt | MS Word, Mellel | Applescript support |
| Connotea | $0 | http://www.connotea.org/ | BibTeX, EndNote,ISI,Medline, MODS XML and RIS | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML and RIS | None | None | Web-based |
| DevonThink | $80 | http://www.devon-technologies.com/ | Stores many digital file formats, images, documents, email etc. | N/A | None | Extremely powerful searching, OCR, Applescript support | |
EndNote X1 for Macintosh (OS X) |
$300 | http://www.endnote.com/ | CSA, EndNote,ISI,Medline, PubMed, RIS, SciFinder | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML and RIS | html,txt, rtf | MS Word, OpenOffice | Applescript support, link to EndNote Web |
| iPapers | $0 | http://homepage.mac.com/toshihiro_aoyama/iPapers/ | pdf, PubMed | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML and RIS | N/A | None | Cocoa App |
| Reference Miner | $0 | http://www.sonnysoftware.com/aboutreferenceminer.html/ | pdf, PubMed | N/A | None | Same company sells Bookends | |
| JabRef | $0 | http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ | BibTex, CSA, EndNote,ISI,Medline, RIS, SciFinder | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML | html,txt, rtf | OpenOffice, Emacs | Java App |
| Papers | $39 | http://mekentosj.com/papers/ | BibTex, PubMed, EndNote, ISI, RIS, ENW | BibTeX, EndNote, RIS | None | Cocoa App, extendible through opensource plugins, updated Nov 2007 | |
| Refbase | $0 | http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ | BibTex, CSA, EndNote,ISI,Medline, MODS XML, PubMed, RIS, SciFinder | BibTeX, EndNote, MODS XML, RIS | html,Latex, txt, rtf | OpenOffice | Web-based |
| Sente | $129.95 | http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/ | PubMed | BibTeX, Refer, HTML, XML | txt, rtf | Word, Mellel | Search refs using Spotlight |
| Wikindx | $0 | http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/ | BibTex, EndNote,ISI, PubMed, RIS | BibTeX, EndNote, RIS | html, txt | None | Web-based |
| WizFolio | $0 | https://www.wizfolio.com/Default.aspx | PubMed | Web-based | |||
| Zotero | $0 | http://www.zotero.org/ | BibTex, EndNote, MODS XML, RIS | BibTeX, EndNote, MODS XML, RIS | html, rtf | MS Office beta available | Firefox extension saves to local database |
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