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Small utilities for people who work with bibliographies. No account, no ads, no limits on what you can convert, and every field the target format supports comes across.

Citation format converter

Convert between BibTeX, RIS and CSL-JSON. Free, no sign-up, no batch limits, and every field the target format supports comes across.

BibTeX to RIS

Convert a .bib file or pasted BibTeX to RIS for EndNote, Zotero or Mendeley. Free, no sign-up, and abstracts, keywords and identifiers all come across.

RIS to BibTeX

Convert an RIS export to BibTeX for LaTeX and Overleaf. Free, no sign-up, and abstracts, keywords and identifiers all come across.

BibTeX to CSL-JSON

Convert BibTeX to CSL-JSON, the format used by Zotero, Pandoc and citeproc. Free, no sign-up, and custom fields are kept so you can convert back without loss.

CSL-JSON to BibTeX

Convert CSL-JSON from Zotero or Pandoc back to BibTeX. Free, no sign-up.