JabRef's export and import capabilities can be extended quite
easily. Please unzip the JabRef-extensions file, preferably to the
same folder where you installed JabRef (where the jabref.jar file can be found).
To create your own export format, you can define custom layouts,
simple templates where at certain places the contents of a JabRef database are written
into. For an example see the files in the layout directory.
For more details about creating your own export format, please read
API/CustomExports.html.
The extensions contain also a few simple examples on how to create new field formatters -
small commands that determine how database entries are written to your
custom layout, please check net/sf/export/layout/format.
You can also quite easily create an importer that allows you
to read references from sources important to you. This requires only
modest programming skills. Please check the
example, compile it
using the compileAll.bat script, register it
as a custom importer with your JabRef-installation and
import the SimpleCsvImporter.csv
file to see how it is done. More details can be found
in API/CustomImports.html.
All importers that are part of the standard JabRef-distribution are also
included in this extensions-package under net/sf/jabref/imports.
In addition to serving as further examples, you can also fix them and register them as custom importers
if you encounter any problems.
The API-documentation for extensions that require some programming
is available under API/index.html.