
There is a warning about this being old but from what I see it is still applicable. JabRef cannot check that you don't write \somesymbolthatdoesntexist. Hi: I used to fix my bibliographies with JabRef, but now I see biblatex is much more customisable and I want to know if is able to use jabref using biblatex because my problem is that jabref change the types that are not like in bibtex like thesis, collection, etc. If you would have written &8211 in a text editor you would have got exactly that behaviour. Apart from which JabRef deals with explicitly, what is written in the field is LaTeX code. you can create citations for Latex and Office documents that refers to your papers. Regarding, I am not convinced that it should be automatically escaped. Also, the Disable checkbox cant be selected. Neither the 'x' nor the 'OK' button will close this window it freezes the program. JabRef program uses no separate internal file format but directly works with BibTeX and biblatex. (Jabref 2.7.2 in Win7) If I copy an entry and change the bibtex key by deleting it first (instead of using the magic wand icon) and then try to save the file a warning window pops up 'empty bibtex key'. libtext-bibtex-perl (0.85-2) libtext-bidi-perl (2.15-1) libtext-brew-perl.

When you use this method to manage papers you have great flexibility as jabRef can export to many other Reference formats or export your library to a web page and so on. JabRef is is a program for working with BibTeX and biblatex libraries. your operating system encoding of the document (e.g. (0.3-15) ascii (3.18-1) ascii2binary (2.14-1) asciiart (0.0.9-1) asciidoc. Your documents does not have to be books and they can be hard copies on a shelf or in a filing cabinet, or electronic on your computer, in the case of physical documents you just number the articles and use that as the number in the BibTex file, if they are electronic you can have a link to them in the BibTex file, they could even be on the internet.

JabRef uses the Bibtex standard to store information about a wide variety of document types the Bibtex file is an ascii file that looks like this: = Jabref is available from the repositories. I believe a reference manager like jabRef would help you,
