BibTeX, a portmanteau of the abbreviation of “bibliography” and “TeX,” is a reference management tool and file format most often used alongside the typesetting tool LaTeX. BibTeX allows authors and editors to store references in an external database file. Citations within any LaTeX document can then simply reference the external file instead of bundling the reference list at the end of the document(s).
BibTeX is also an accepted import format for such reference managers as Mendeley and Zotero.
While BibTeX is a convenient tool, the syntax can be a challenge. Edifix's BibTeX export option will help you easily convert your corrected references to BibTeX for integration with your work.
Example: The following unedited references:
- Lawrence, Raymond. The witches’ brew of spirituality and medicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. February 2002, Volume 24, Issue 1, pp 74-76.
- McHugh, Paul. Witches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts. Nature Medicine 1, 110-114 (1995).
- Richter, Curt. On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man. Psychosomatic Medicine. 19(3):May 1957.
- Schlozman, S. “Neurobiology of a zombie.” In: But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur. Edited by Amy Thompson and Antonio Thompson. New York: McFarland. 2015 pp. 75-88.
are exported in the following BibTeX format:
%Lawrence, R. J. (2002, Winter). The witches' brew of spirituality and medicine. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24(1), 74{textendash}76. 10.1207/S15324796ABM2401{_}09120087970883-6612
@article{Lawrence:2002,
DOI = {10.1207/S15324796ABM2401{_}09},
ISSN = {0883-6612},
author = {Lawrence, R. J.},
journal = {Annals of Behavioral Medicine},
number = {1},
pages = {74--76},
pubmed = {12008797},
title = {{T}he witches' brew of spirituality and medicine.},
volume = {24},
year = {2002},
}
%McHugh, P. R. (1995, February). Witches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts. Nature Medicine, 1(2), 110{textendash}114. 10.1038/nm0295-11075850011078-8956
@article{McHugh:1995,
DOI = {10.1038/nm0295-110},
ISSN = {1078-8956},
author = {McHugh, P. R.},
journal = {Nature Medicine},
number = {2},
pages = {110--114},
pubmed = {7585001},
title = {{W}itches, multiple personalities, and other psychiatric artifacts.},
volume = {1},
year = {1995},
}
%Richter, C. P. (1957, May-June). On the phenomenon of sudden death in animals and man. Psychosomatic Medicine, 19(3), 191{textendash}198. 10.1097/00006842-195705000-00004134320920033-3174
@article{Richter:1957,
DOI = {10.1097/00006842-195705000-00004},
ISSN = {0033-3174},
author = {Richter, C. P.},
journal = {Psychosomatic Medicine},
number = {3},
pages = {191--198},
pubmed = {13432092},
title = {{O}n the phenomenon of sudden death in animals and man.},
volume = {19},
year = {1957},
%Schlozman, S. (2015). Neurobiology of a zombie. In A. Thompson {&} A. Thompson (Eds.), But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur (pp. 75{textendash}88). New York: McFarland.
@misc{Schlozman:2015,
address = {New York},
author = {Schlozman, S.},
editor = {Thompson, A. and Thompson, A.},
pages = {75--88},
publisher = {McFarland},
title = {{N}eurobiology of a zombie},
year = {2015},
}
You can learn more about the BibTeX fie format at bibtex.org. Also see this post on the Edifix Blog for a real-world example of how Edifixed references exported to BibTeX format can work with an authoring tool.