I want to manage my PDFs. So far I know how to: Create a library (also called a table?) Create a new entry Drop a PDF file onto the entry. The file is linked to the entry, but that is it. Nothing else happens; No Title, Author, Year information at all. (When I tried with Linux version, I was abl…

Hi, JabRef tries to read metadata for the pdf (if avaiable) In JabRef you can do a “Update with bibliograpic information from the web” in the entry editor. However, normally the workflow is the other way round. You add a citation, e.g. paste a DOI on the entry table and then lookup the fulltext o…

Thank you for your reply! I tried to find “Update with bibliograpic information from the web” but failed miserably… where is it? The entry editor has tabs “Required fields” etc; is it hidden in any of the tabs? Sorry to bother you with such a simple matter…

You need to open the pdf, copy ISBN or doi and include that manually in the entry (in the given field, e.g. doi or isbn). Afterwards the context menu (Get BibTeX data from doi/ISBN, etc) will allow you to pull the other metadata.

Thank you! So there is no “Update with bibliographic information from the web” as Christoph said above? Comparing to Zotero, this is very inconvenient. Also, many papers in ArXiv have no DOI nor ISBN. Zotero works with them fine, but JabRef is just blind to them.

Maybe using the JabRef browser extension (formerly known as JabFox) would help you: https://github.com/JabRef/JabRef-Browser-Extension That should be the closest to a normal Zotero workflow, I think. Regarding the “Update with bibliographic information from the web” feature: Open an item in JabRef…

I would typically insert a doi (as in the screenshot) or an isbn, and then use the context menu :slight_smile: [Screenshot-20200505045748-904x901]

Thank you Ingmar and A Egit! I now have a better understanding of JabRef workflow. I think it works to a certain extent for me: no complicated database files like Zotero, just a text file. However, it is inconvenient with PDF, and it doesn’t work for ArXiv papers, which have no DOI or ISBN.

@lime The other recommended workflow is to use New Entry -> And then you can enter DOI/Axiv/ISBN… Then JabRef will automatically fetch the bibtex from it. See the help: https://docs.jabref.org/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/import-using-publication-identifiers/doitobibtex Alternatively yo…

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I would typically insert a doi (as in the screenshot) or an isbn, and then use the context menu

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