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 13.1.5:

• Updated database engine
• Bookends will display Google's reCAPTCHA page when Google Scholar thinks you are a web robot
• Google Scholar will sometimes think you're a web robot based upon your search and downloading activity and refuse further service. If this happens when you're searching in the Online Search window, Bookends will show the Google confirmation page with a reCAPTCHA asking you to confirm you're not a robot. Once completed your search rights will be restored, although the time this takes is variable and can be up to 24 hours.
• When importing malformed XML, Bookends will alert you and show the lines generating the error
• This information may help you correct the XML in a text editor or, if exported from another reference manager like Sente or Papers, delete the reference whose metadata is incorrectly represented.
• Bookends will prevent duplication of keywords in a reference
• Added a "include attachments" option when replicating a reference as a Book Chapter
• This is useful, for example, if you have the PDF of the entire book and you want each chapter to have that as an attachment.
• Increased the timeout setting for Bookends Server to deal with problems with network latency
• HTML-formatting of references has been improved and is now compatible with XHTML
• The "generate bibliography" setting in the Scan dialog is remembered throughout a session
• It is always "true" when Bookends is relaunched.
• The upper limit of references that Bookends will detect on a web page in Bookends Browser has been increased to 100
• The menu item "Synced iOS Device Info…" has been renamed "Wi-Fi Synced iOS Devices…", and is disabled if there are none
• Quote marks will be removed from PDF names when when they are being automatically renamed by Bookends
• Export Attachments is a right-click option if any selected reference has attachments
• Previously this function was only available if the first selection had attachments.
• Bookends won't show a recently opened library in the Open menu if it was moved to the Trash

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug in BibTeX export where a close instead of an open smart quote could be output by mistake. Pressing Option when invoking Copy Citation or Copy Formatted copies to the clipboard but no longer switches to a linked word processor. Fixed a bug in EndNote XML import where the URL could be imported into the wrong field. Fixed a rare bug that could cause an error if you changed a field label and then did a live search on that field. Command-+ and Command-- keyboard shortcuts now zoom in or out PDFs displayed in the edit pane's attachment tab. Fixed a bug that prevented Bookends from importing titles beginning with a superscript from PubMed. Fixed a bug where the Hits menu wasn't enabled after a Spotlight live search. Fixed a problem that could occur if a library was a term's corresponding references weren't shown.

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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