Bookends offers a host of features for locating, obtaining, managing, and using references to create bibliographies and footnotes. It has the following features:

• Link to your word processor for instant switching to and from Bookends
• Autocompletion of authors, editors, keywords, journals and any other field with a Term List
• Unicode throughout (supports non-Roman languages)
• Support for BibTeX data entry, importing, and formatting
• Import/export references in XML (with styled text information) from/to EndNote 7 or later
• Sort a database by any three fields
• Detect and automatically or manually delete duplicate references
• Drag and drop links to Bookends references into other applications