KBibTeX

BibTeX editor by KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX Source

Description

KBibTeX is a reference management application which can be used to collect TeX/LaTeX bibliographies and export them in various formats.

KBibTeX can do the following things:

Preview bibliography entries in various formats (Source (BibTeX), Source (RIS), Wikipedia, standard (XML/XSLT), fancy (XML/XSLT), and abstract-only (XML/XSLT)). Additional preview styles become available when bibtex2html is installed.
Import data in various bibliography file formats such as BibTeX, RIS and ISI (requires bibutils) and export data to PDF (requires pdflatex), PostScript (requires latex), RTF (requires latex2rtf), and HTML.
Search for the bibliography entries data in online databases (e.g. Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE, arXiv, etc.)
Preview local or remote (online) resources, e.g. PDF files, linked in the BibTEX entry.
Find and merge duplicate entries in bibliography.
Integrate your bibliographies with LaTeX editors such as Kile and LyX.
Import your Zotero library.

Source

Notice

https://invent.kde.org/office/kbibtex/-/tree/master/mobile/sailfishos Sailfish GUI, Status refers to Kirigami branch.

Project links:

Links with more information:

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/kbibtex/kbibtex-kf5.png

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2020-05-16.

The last known commit happened on 2025-03-28.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-03-31

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.kbibtex.flatpakref

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-2.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: Kirigami

Programming languages: C++ QML

Build system: cmake

AppStream Metadata URL: https://invent.kde.org/office/kbibtex/-/raw/master/src/program/org.kde.kbibtex.appdata.xml