Pybliographer 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,...

 tool that deals with bibliographic

Bibliography

Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...

 databases, used for viewing, editing, searching, and reformatting bibliographies. Written in Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

 and licensed under GNU GPL, it provides a scripting framework of classes and functions, which makes it extendable to many other applications.

In addition to the scripting environment, pybliographer provides a graphical GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 interface called Pybliographic, allowing many customizable viewing and editing possibilities. The interface can also be used to insert references directly into LyX

LyX

LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm , as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors...

 , Kile

Kile

Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX source code. It runs on Unix-like systems including Mac OS X and Linux with the Qt libraries installed.- Name :...

 or OpenOffice, direct queries to Medline, and more.

File formats supported

• 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...
  
  
• ISI
  Information Sciences Institute
  The Information Sciences Institute is a research and development unit of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering which focuses on computer and communications technology and information processing...
  
  
• Medline
  MEDLINE
  MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...
  
  
• Ovid
  Ovid (disambiguation)
  Ovid was a Roman poet.Ovid may also refer to:* Ovid, Colorado* Ovid, Michigan, a village in Clinton County, Michigan* Ovid Township, Branch County, Michigan* Ovid Township, Clinton County, Michigan* Ovid , New York...
  
  
• Refer
  Refer
  Refer can mean:*Referral : To refer a person is to personally recommend, endorse, and pass them to a qualified professional or service that can serve their need, often including informing both parties of said recommendation and/or endorsement....
  
  

External links

• Pybliographer project page