BibTeX - Application

BibTeX is an application created in 1985.

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BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as B I B T E X {\displaystyle {\mathrm {B{\scriptstyle {IB}}\!T\!_{\displaystyle E}\!X} }} . Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of BibTeX happened in The TeX Users Group
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for BibTeX
See also: (9 related languages) LaTeX, Tex, URL, Common Lisp, Unicode, Scribe, HTML, Emacs, PDF

Example from the web:

 @inproceedings{Gousi13,
  author = {Gousios, Georgios},
  title = {The GHTorrent dataset and tool suite},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software
    Repositories},
  series = {MSR '13},
  year = {2013},
  isbn = {978-1-4673-2936-1},
  location = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
  pages = {233--236},
  numpages = {4},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2487085.2487132},
  acmid = {2487132},
  publisher = {IEEE Press},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
 }

Example from the Hello World Collection:

%Hello world in BibTex

ENTRY{author}{}{}

FUNCTION {hello.world}
{
  "Hello World!" write$ newline$
}

READ
EXECUTE {hello.world}

Example from Wikipedia:

@Book{abramowitz+stegun,
 author    = "Milton {Abramowitz} and Irene A. {Stegun}",
 title     = "Handbook of Mathematical Functions with
              Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables",
 publisher = "Dover",
 year      =  1964,
 address   = "New York City",
 edition   = "ninth Dover printing, tenth GPO printing"
}