BibDesk Alternatives for Linux
BibDesk is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The most popular Linux alternative is 
Zotero, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to BibDesk and eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to BibDesk are 
Mendeley Reference Manager (Freemium), 
JabRef (Free, Open Source), 
wizdom.ai (Freemium) and 
RefWorks (Paid).
- Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
- Freemium • Open Source
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- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Microsoft Office Word
- Google Drive - Docs
- LibreOffice
- Firefox
Zotero does not sync with Latex natively and it requires a third party software. - Academic software for organizing, sharing, and generating bibliographies for research papers.
- Freemium
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- Online
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- Bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.
- Free • Open Source
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portable since in Java, relies only on bib file (no separate database), generates clean bib files (no internal fields)Works the best with LaTeX documents, as exporting citations is redundant: JabRef's database is a simple .bib file. Available for all major platforms, offers automatic addition of entries via DOI or arXiv-ID, has everything one needs as a citation and reference manager. - wizdom.ai (formerly colwiz) is a free and comprehensive research management software for researchers, academics and students. With the wizdom.
- RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well...
- Program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications.
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As the developer stated in February 2017, the software is no longer developed: https://sourceforge.net/p/textcite/discussion/616111/thread/91d6f4bc/#e988 Last version, 1.4, released in September 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Open Source
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- This Zotero plugin allows the user to automatically generate bibliographies (as well as in-text citations and footnotes) for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
- Bibfilex is a free bibliographic manager for GNU/Linux, Windows and OS X. It's useful to create and to manage archives of bibliographical items (books, articles, etc.) with possible attachments of any kind according to Biblatex structure and rules.