KBibTeX is a reference management software

Reference management software

Reference management software, citation management software or personal bibliographic management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations . Once a citation has been recorded, it can be used time and again in generating bibliographies,...

 primarily for BibTeX

BibTeX

BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system...

 which is typically used in conjunction with TeX

TeX

TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....

/LaTeX

LaTeX

LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...

. Beyond normal editing capabilities, KBibTeX offers features such as searching and importing new references from Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest...

 or BibSonomy

BibSonomy

BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management...

.

KBibTeX is written using the KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 framework, but is not part of the official KDE Software Compilation

KDE Software Compilation

The KDE Software Compilation is a desktop environment and an associated range of KDE Applications produced by KDE. Prior to version 4.4, released in February 2010, the Software Compilation was known as KDE, which used to stand for K Desktop Environment until November 2009...

 or KOffice

KOffice

Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE created from KOffice in 2010. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones...

. There exist two versions of KDE: The original version is using the old KDE3 framework and has been in development since 2004; it is stable for daily use. A new version building on the KDE4 framework is currently under development; the most recent stable release is 0.3.

External links

• KBibTeX for KDE3: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/
• KBibTeX for KDE4: http://home.gna.org/kbibtex/