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 Mac OS X 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 6 Jan 2012.
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| Application | Price | Link | Import | Export | Citation Format | Word Processor linking | Notes |
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| Aigaion | $0 | aigaion/ | BibTeX and RIS | BibTeX and RIS | html,txt,rtf | None | Web-based |
| Bibdesk | $0 | bibdesk | 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 | bibus-biblio | BibTeX, EndNote,ISI,Medline and RIS | BibTeX, Endnote and RIS | html,txt | MS Word, OpenOffice | PubMed and eTBLAST |
| Bookends | $99 | bookends | BibTeX, EndNote | BibTeX, Endnote | txt | MS Word, Mellel | Applescript support |
| Connotea | $0 | connotea | BibTeX, EndNote,ISI,Medline, MODS XML and RIS | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML and RIS | None | None | Web-based |
| DevonThink | $80 | devon-technologies | Stores many digital file formats, images, documents, email etc. | N/A | None | Extremely powerful searching, OCR, Applescript support | |
EndNote
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$300 | endnote | 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 | iPapers | pdf, PubMed | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML and RIS | N/A | None | Cocoa App |
| Reference Miner | $0 | referenceminer | pdf, PubMed | N/A | None | Same company sells Bookends | |
| JabRef | $0 | jabreft | BibTex, CSA, EndNote,ISI,Medline, RIS, SciFinder | BibTeX, Endnote, MODS XML | html,txt, rtf | OpenOffice, Emacs | Java App |
| Papers2 | $79 | papers | BibTex, PubMed, EndNote, ISI, RIS, ENW | BibTeX, EndNote, RIS | None | Cocoa App, extendible through opensource plugins, updated Dec 2011, also support iPhone, iPad | |
| Refbase | $0 | refbase | 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 | Sente | PubMed | BibTeX, Refer, HTML, XML | txt, rtf | Word, Mellel | Search refs using Spotlight |
| ReferenceTracker | $44.95 | referencetracker | BibTex, RTF, PubMed, RIS | txt, html,BibTeX, RIS | html, txt | Pages, Word, Nissus | |
| Wikindx | $0 | wikindx | BibTex, EndNote,ISI, PubMed, RIS | BibTeX, EndNote, RIS | html, txt | None | Web-based |
| Mendeley | $0 | mendeley | BibTex, EndNote, PubMed, RIS, Web Services | BibTeX, EndNote, RIS | txt | Word (under development) | |
| WizFolio | $0-$25 per year depending storage size | wizfolio | PubMed | Word | Web-based | ||
| ReadCube | $?? | ReadCube | PubMed, Google Scholar | EndNote | Desktop and Web-based | ||
| Utopia | $0 | Utopia | BibTex | Links to online resources | Desktop and Web-based | ||
| Zotero | $0 | zotero | 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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