BibDesk

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BibDesk
Screen shot of BibDesk 1.3.8
Developed by	The BibDesk Team
Latest release	1.3.14 / 24 January 2008
OS	Mac OS X
Genre	LaTeX
License	BSD
Website	bibdesk.sourceforge.net

BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for Mac OS X, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is primarily a BibTeX front-end for use with LaTeX, but also offers external database connectivity for importing, a variety of means for exporting, and capacity for linking to local documents.

First launched publicly in 2002, BibDesk is under continuing development by various contributors via Sourceforge and is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution.

[edit] Features

BibDesk offers a front-end for creating, editing, managing, and searching BibTeX databases. With integrated connectivity to external databases including PubMed and the U.S. Library of Congress (and any other databases searchable via that Z39.50 or Entrez protocols), it permits one-click importing of references to articles and books listed in these databases and library catalogs. It also facilitates importing of unformatted references from websites or documents without requiring that they be re-typed.

BibDesk also permits articles residing on a user's computer to be linked to their BibDesk database entries via drag-and-drop, and provides various ways to annotate articles which variously do or do not affect the underlying BibTeX data.

Though created to export in BibTeX format for use in LaTeX documents, BibDesk can also export citations formatted in any given citation style in plain text, HTML, and RSS.