My Bibliography file is called “bib.bib” and was located in “My Documents” which contains a space so I relocated it to a new folder “c:\References\bib.bib” Make a note of your location.
Unfortunately BibTeX does not support filenames with spaces in them, if you have spaces in your path to your JabRef file you must relocate your data file to a directory without. The link to MikTeX is here (and will open in a new window) You need to download and install the basic version, don’t worry about installing all the packages, you don’t need them. MiKTex is a LaTeX typesetting environment, you don’t need to be too concerned about the details of this, essentially MiKTeX contains BibTeX the ‘engine’ that is used for to generate the different referencing styles that you will now be able to call on to be able to submit to various journals eg.
I will cover how to use JabRef in a forthcoming guide. If you wish you can download JabRef from here. These instructions assume that you are already familiar with JabRef and have a copy installed on your computer. The newest version can be found here on Mike Brookes’ site, along with excellent documentation. This post is for an old version of the BibTeX4Word Macro. In this guide I will show you step-by-step how to install Mike Brookes‘ excellent free Bibtex4Word (v1.12) Word Macro Package on your Windows XP machine. Unfortunately most users are not aware that JabRef (or any other BibTeX based reference manager) can easily be integrated for use with Microsoft Word. JabRef is one of the best reference managers available and provides a realistic alternative to Endnote, as well as being open-source & free.