Overview

BibTeX is a tool and file format used to describe a list of references. Publishing of scientific documents leads to the expansion of researcher’s collection of bibliographic data and most of these references are BibTeX entries. Through the manual way to handle BibTeX entries would be a tedious and time-consuming task for researchers. Therefore numerous projects are developed on BibTeX for better management of references in native BibTeX format. Usually, these projects implement software that come with convenient user interface for researchers to manage their BibTeX files. Most of the existing BibTeX tools provide common operations such as editing, viewing, import and export of BibTeX entries. Other BibTeX programs do provide features like conversion of BibTeX files to other formats such as xml and html. Besides BibTeX management software, plenty of web portals are developed to form online community which build bibliography database to facilitate searching and sharing of references for researchers. Through users contribution of references and additional information such as paper reviews and comments, useful and interesting statistic result regarding publishing of document can be discovered.