bib, that is separate from the LaTeX source file. Each reference in the bibliography file is formatted with a certain structure and is given a 'key' by which the author can refer to it in the source file. For more information on LaTeX, see LaTeX on Athena Basics, provided by the Athena On-Line Help system.īibTex is a bibliographic tool that is used with LaTeX to help organize the user's references and create a bibliography. A BibTeX user creates a bibliography file, wth a file extension of. It is widely used at MIT for theses and other technical papers due to its prowess with mathematical and foreign characters.
LaTeX is a typesetting program that takes a plain text file with various commands in it and converts it to a formatted document based on the commands that it has been given. The source file for the document has a file extension of. For those who are interested, here's information on LaTex and Bibtex compatibility.
