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BibTeX, sometimes stylized as '''''' (, ), is both a bibliographic flat-file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference management software.

Key facts

Software.name
BibTeX
Software.logo
BibTeX logo.svg
Software.logo size
200px
Software.author
Oren Patashnik, Leslie Lamport
Software.developer
Oren Patashnik
Software.latest release version
0.99e
Software.repo
https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/
Software.programming language
WEB
Software.platform
Cross-platform
Software.included with
TeX Live
Software.language
English
Software.genre
Reference management software
Software.license
Knuth License

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Full text

The word ,,BibTeX '' stands for a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with LaTeX documents. Here you can learn about the BibTeX File Format , How to use BibTeX and BibTeX Tools which can help you to ease your BibTeX usage.

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Processor
  • History
  • Reimplementations
  • Database files
  • Style files
  • Examples of uses
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

BibTeX, sometimes stylized as '''' (, ), is both a bibliographic flat-file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference management software.

The BibTeX program comes bundled with the LaTeX document preparation system, and is not available as a stand-alone program. Within this typesetting system its name is styled as {\mathrm{B{\scriptstyle{IB}} \! T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X}}. The name is a portmanteau of the word bibliography'' and the name of the TeX typesetting software.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BibTeX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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