BibDesk
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Screen shot of BibDesk 1.3.8
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| Developer(s) | The BibDesk Team |
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| Initial release | 2002 |
| Stable release |
1.6.9 / February 14, 2017
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| Repository | sourceforge |
| Written in | C, Objective-C |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | LaTeX |
| License | BSD |
| Website | bibdesk |
BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for macOS, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It can also be used to organize and maintain a library of documents in PDF format and other formats. It is primarily a BibTeX front-end for use with LaTeX, but also offers external bibliographic database connectivity for importing, a variety of means for exporting, and capability for linking to local documents and automatically filing local documents. It takes advantage of many macOS features such as AppleScript and Spotlight.
First launched publicly in 2002, BibDesk is under continuing development by various contributors via SourceForge. The original developer was Michael McCracken, and much of the code has subsequently been written by Adam Maxwell and Christiaan Hofman. Also available directly from SourceForge (see § External links), it is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution of TeX Live.
BibDesk offers an iTunes-like Cocoa-based graphical user interface for creating, editing, managing, and searching BibTeX databases. It supports BibTeX features such as macros and crossrefs.
Users can add new items to a BibTeX database, and copy items between databases, by dragging or pasting, or by using one of the included macOS services. BibDesk enables one-click importing of items from several kinds of external groups:
BibDesk can also import records in RIS format. It can import from other formats with the help of command-line conversion tools such as BibUtils.
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