Әдебиет тізімін қалыптастыруға арналған BibTeX бағдарламасы

Reference management software for formatting lists of references

BibTeX is both a bibliographic flat file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference management software. The BibTeX program comes bundled with the LaTeX document preparation system, and is not available as a stand alone program. Within this typesetting system its name is styled as The name is a portmanteau of the word bibliography and the name of the TeX typesetting software. BibTeX was created by Oren Patashnik in 1985. No updates were published between February 1988 and March 2010, when the package was updated to improve URL printing and clarify the license. There are various reimplementations of the program. The purpose of BibTeX is to make it easy to cite sources in a consistent manner, by separating bibliographic information from the presentation of this information, similarly to the separation of content and presentation/style supported by LaTeX itself.

BibTeX formats bibliographic items according to a style file, typically by generating TeX or LaTeX formatting commands, but style files can also be used to generate other types of output like HTML. BibTeX style files commonly use the file extension bst and are written in a simple, stack based programming language (dubbed "BibTeX Anonymous Forth Like Language", or "BAFLL", by Drew McDermott) that describes how bibliography items should be formatted. There are some packages that can generate bst files automatically, such as custom bib and Bib it. Most journals or publishers that support LaTeX use a customized bibliographic style file for the convenience of the authors, often included as part of a complete LaTeX template.