diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/bibutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/bibutils/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fb83e6996e33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/bibutils/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "bibutils-${version}";
+  version = "5.6";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/bibutils/bibutils_${version}_src.tgz";
+    sha256 = "08vlaf1rs881v61hb0dnab5brbpbwbv2hqlxmw0yaycknqwbmiwz";
+  };
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--dynamic" "--install-dir" "$(out)/bin" "--install-lib" "$(out)/lib" ];
+  dontAddPrefix = true;
+
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkTarget = "test";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Bibliography format interconversion";
+    longDescription = "The bibutils program set interconverts between various bibliography formats using a common MODS-format XML intermediate. For example, one can convert RIS-format files to Bibtex by doing two transformations: RIS->MODS->Bibtex. By using a common intermediate for N formats, only 2N programs are required and not N²-N. These programs operate on the command line and are styled after standard UNIX-like filters.";
+    homepage = "http://sourceforge.net/p/bibutils/home/Bibutils/";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.garrison ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c294f8be31c8..c797e4853abe 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ let
 
   bibtool = callPackage ../tools/misc/bibtool { };
 
+  bibutils = callPackage ../tools/misc/bibutils { };
+
   bindfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/bindfs { };
 
   binwalk = callPackage ../tools/misc/binwalk {