Wikindx is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (Virtual Research Environment) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet. Wikindx falls within the category of 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,...

, but also provides functionality to write notes and entire papers. Developed under the GNU GPL license, the project homepage can be found at sourceforge.net and the required files/updates are available for download there.

Other features

• supports non-English multi-byte character sets.
• allows multiple attachments for each bibliographic resource.
• can export a bibliography in various bibliographic styles (APA
  APA
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  , Chicago, IEEE for example).
• allows users to edit or create bibliographic styles through a graphical interface.
• can import and export other bibliographic formats including 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...
  
   and EndNote
  EndNote
  EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :...
  
  format.

See also

• Comparison of reference management software
  Comparison of reference management software
  - General :In the "notes" section, there is a difference between:* web-based, referring to applications that may be installed on a web server...
  
  for some comparisons with similar packages.