Format guide
BibTeX
BibTeX bibliography
BibTeX is the de facto bibliography format for LaTeX since 1985, plain-text entries like @article{key, author={...}, title={...}, journal={...}, year={2024}}. Used by every academic publisher's LaTeX template and supported as an import/export format by Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Papers. Strengths: trivially diff-able in git, scriptable, tooling-rich. Weakness: there's no single canonical spec, so different parsers handle edge cases (special characters, cross-references, @string macros) inconsistently.
How to open a BibTeX file
Any text editor (the format is plain text). Reference managers like Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef, BibDesk all read and write it natively.
Primary use
Academic citations in LaTeX papers; reference-manager export.
Convert other formats to BibTeX
Convert BibTeX to other formats
- BibTeX → EndNote ENW
- BibTeX → RefWorks
- BibTeX → MODS
- BibTeX → RIS
- BibTeX → CSV
- BibTeX → APA
- BibTeX → MLA
- BibTeX → Chicago
- BibTeX → Harvard
- BibTeX → IEEE
- BibTeX → AMA
- BibTeX → Nature
- BibTeX → ACS
- BibTeX → ASA
- BibTeX → Vancouver
- BibTeX → APA In-Text Citations
- BibTeX → MLA In-Text Citations
- BibTeX → Chicago In-Text Citations
- BibTeX → Harvard In-Text Citations
- BibTeX -> APA (HTML)
- BibTeX -> MLA (HTML)
- BibTeX -> Chicago (HTML)
- BibTeX -> Harvard (HTML)
- BibTeX -> IEEE (HTML)
- BibTeX -> Vancouver (HTML)
- BibTeX -> AMA (HTML)
- BibTeX -> Nature (HTML)
- BibTeX -> ACS (HTML)
- BibTeX -> ASA (HTML)
- BibTeX to CFF
- BibTeX → XLSX
- BibTeX → NBIB
- BibTeX → EndNote XML
- BibTeX → CSL-JSON
- BibTeX → YAML (CSL)
- BibTeX → Markdown bibliography
- BibTeX → HTML bibliography
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