BibTeX is a standard LaTeX bibliography reference and publication management data format. The design of BibTeX is to make references available in a simple and easy to create format that allows for flexible display.
BibTeX uses .bib files, these are text based in contain metadata about references, such as a book’s title and author, or the name of a university thesis. Only data is stored in the .bib files, data and style are separated into a separate bibliographic style file called .bst files. These files contain formatting rules to output more readable HTML/TeX/LaTeX.
The .bib file format is similar to YAML or JSON, with name value pairs for an object enclosed in curly braces.
The code looks something like this:
@Phdthesis{title = 'gorillas, do they really like mist?', author = 'Chen Kenichi'}
