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+title: JabRef Interaction with LibreOffice Explained
+id: LibreOfficeIntegration
+author: "[Felix Wilke](/~https://github.com/teertinker)"
+---
+Today's blog post will highlight the interaction between JabRef and LibreOffice, the [open-source alternative](https://www.libreoffice.org/) to Microsoft Office.
+It is presented to you by a JabRef user, [Felix Wilke](/~https://github.com/teertinker), who is also a code contributor.
+
+# JabRef Interaction with LibreOffice
+JabRef offers many features for inserting citations and formatting a bibliography in OpenOffice or LibreOffice Writer.
+This post explains the basic functionality and also how to get the most of it with the help of third-party tools.
+
+## First: Connect JabRef to LibreOffice
+
+- Open LibreOffice and JabRef
+- Open the LibreOffice panel in JabRef
+- Hit the "Connect" button
+
+![](../img/ConnectToLibreOffice.gif)
+
+In case you get an error message you may have to connect manually (see: https://docs.jabref.org/cite/openofficeintegration).
+Especially Linux users should use the official versions of JabRef and LibreOffice in order to prevent connection issues.
+
+## Second: Cite Entries from JabRef
+- Place the cursor at the right position in your manuscript
+- Mark the entry or entries you want to cite
+- Click on "Cite" or "Cite-in-text"
+
+![](../img/libreoffice_blog1.gif)
+
+You can easily change the citation style and bibliography style.
+Just click on "Select style".
+After you have finished your manuscript, just hit the refresh button and your bibliography gets parsed.
+
+## Exchange/Save documents in Other Formats
+
+JabRef uses special fields in LibreOffice that are not supported by other word processors.
+You should save your writer document in OpenDocument format (odt).
+However, there exists an external tool that is able to convert the citations so that they are kept when you save in another format.
+
+- Install the LibreOffice extension: /~https://github.com/teertinker/JabRef_LibreOffice_Converter
+- Hit "Convert to Cite-Key"
+- Save the document in any format you like
+- Open and modify the manuscript with any word processor
+  - Note: Some word processors do not save the additional information of "Cite special" (e.g. pages) 
+- Convert the citations back to JabRef fields
+- Refresh your bibliography
+
+![](../img/libreoffice_blog2.gif)
+
+### Additional Option: Use `\cite{key}` in any Word Processor to Generate References
+- The LibreOffice extension can also be used to convert manuscripts with `\cite{keys}` to JabRef References for LibreOffice
+- This offers the option to work on a manuscript with any word processor and generate a bibliography with LibreOffice
+
+![](../img/libreoffice_blog3.gif)
+
+
+## Fourth: Create you own Citation Style with the Export-Filter-Editor
+Many journals have their own style and editing a style file to conform with those can be quite a pain.
+To simplify the creation of a new jstyles there is this handy GUI tool, [Export-Filter-Editor](/~https://github.com/teertinker/Export-Filter-Editor), which can be used to create custom export filters.
+
+- Open Export-Filter-Editor
+- Create your bibliography
+- Create you citation style
+- Save the jstyle file
+- Open the jstyle in JabRef
+
+![](../img/ExportFilterEditor.gif)