Bookends is a full-featured bibliography/reference and information-management system for students and professionals.

• Bookends uses the cloud to sync reference libraries on all the Macs you use. Access the power of Bookends directly from Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, or MS Word (including Word 2016): Bookends allows you to scan your existing word-processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. You can also scan Apple Pages '08, '09, and 5, Manuscripts.app, and LibreOffice/OpenOffice 4 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor.
• Bookends allows you to share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform. And with Bookends, you can directly search and import references from numerous sources:
  • PubMed
  • Web of Science
  • JSTOR
  • Google Scholar
  • Amazon
  • Library of Congress
  • arXiv
  • and hundreds of other online sources
  Or use a built-in browser to download references with PDF's and/or Web pages. Also, with automatic searches of PubMed, you can discover articles as soon as they're published. Bookends allows for powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, virtual groups, and smart folders as well as tag clouds that make hierarchical searches easy.
• Bookends also offers a robust assortment of file attachment features:
  • Attach any file (such as a PDF) to a reference and view or open it instantly.
  • Automatically rename and organize PDF files on-the-fly.
  • Automatically download and attach the PDF of an article from the Internet if you have access permission.
  • Automatically locate and attach PDF's on your hard drive.
  • Annotate and markup PDFs and have the information instantly accessible in notecards.
  Easily migrate references and attachments from other reference managers to Bookends.
• Sync your library with Bookends for iOS on your iOS devices, so that you have your references and PDF's with you wherever you are.

Version 13.1.4:

• Import references from multiple files at once with drag and drop. If you drag and drop more than one text file onto the library window Bookends will import the references contained in all. Note that the references in each file must be in the same format (e.g. RIS, PubMed, XML, etc.) or some of the references will not be imported. If any of the files is not a text file Bookends will offer to attach them all (the previous behavior)
• Styled text information in the Abstract and Notes will be preserved when importing EndNote XML files even if more than one EndNote field is combined
• When attaching a PDF to an existing reference that is showing in the list (e.g. in a group), Bookends will not change the group selection to All
• Bookends will generate a more useful error notification when the PubMed network connection is droppedPubMed is having intermittent connection problems that affect some users
• Export PDFs attachments with or without annotations via the File menu or by using a right-click
• Copy Hypertext Links from the floating citations windowNote that many apps, including Word, do not accept hypertext links
• The rarely-used non-editable PDF viewer has been removedPDFs are now always displayed in the more versatile PDF annotation view
• Improvements were made in the way AppleEvents are handled in macOS 10.14
• Adding terms to references via the Term List window will not bring up a confirmation dialogA notification will be sent after the terms are added
• The floating citations window height will adjust accordingly if "always show scrollbars" is selected in System Preferences
• Bug fixesFixed a bug where some Google Scholar searches could cause an error message. Fixed a bug where the reference edit pane might not scroll back to the top correctly when the window height was increased. Fixed a bug in preferences where the superscript character was shown as = when it was actually set to None. Fixed a scanning error that could occur in some situations when a reference has no author or editor. Fixed a bug that prevented the online search window from showing the references found if a library window was not open. Fixed a bug where pressing Command-+ on some non-US keyboards would not zoom the PDF. Fixed a spurious error that could occur when trying to automatically import metadata from arXiv. Bookends Server Query searches are once again case-insensitive

Bookends is overall the best reference manager for macOS. The major advantage lies in the fact its database engine is the most flexible/accessible, allowing powerful group editing of the reference data. Bookends has been continuously developed for the Mac since 1984, and still receives regular updates. In V13 there have been major improvements to the way you can view and annotate PDFs.

For example, there is a sticky tab bar for multiple reference PDFs so you can quickly add several PDFs then switch between them effortlessly, while being able to view the annotations note stream (metadata about your PDF annotations are automagically extracted into the main database for you).

Full screen is now contextual, if you are editing reference lists, it opens into the reference list, if you have a PDF panel open, it opens into the PDF.

The automated Pubmed search has been improved, and it greatly enhances the speed at which we can scan through new potentially interesting references.

There are many more interesting features and Bookends really offers the best mix of detailed reference management, search interface, PDF handling, flexible bibliography generation and more.

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