Output Format

The following are the output formats currently supported.

BibTeX Format

This is the basic format for the newer bibliographies. (BibTeX is the format of bibiliographic databases used in LaTeX). Older bibliographies are translated into this format automatically. The result is not perfect, partly because their format (refer-format) is strictly less expressive than BibTeX.

@article{Plonk-Dell95,
    author =    "Dan~Rougold Plonker and M. Random-Delling",
    year =      "1995",
    journal =   "Journal of Unpublishable Papers",
    number =    "2",
    pages =     "1-32",
    title =     "Some Thoughts about Bibs on Webs",
    volume =    "3"
}

Refer/Endnote Format

This is the basic for the older bibliographies -- the format that the older bibliographies are actually stored in (refer is a preprocessor for troff). A proper description can be found in the Unix manual entry, and I have also provided some general hints.

This is also the format used by Endnote.

Here is an example of this format:

%L Plonk-Dell95
%A Dan\0Rougold Plonker
%A M. Random-Delling
%T Some Thoughts about Bibs on Webs
%J Journal of Unpublishable Papers
%V 3
%N 2
%P 1-32
%D 1995

HTML Format

Entries are returned (and hence displayed) in a form suitable for viewing with a web-browser, i.e. in the same form as this document:

Dan Rougold Plonker and M. Random-Delling ``Some Thoughts about Bibs on Webs'', Journal of Unpublishable Papers, Vol. 3, 2, 1995, pp 1-32.

Troff Format

Entries are returned in a form suitable for processing with troff (and its variants nroff, ptroff, groff, etc.), using the -ms macros, without further preprocessing. For example:

.XP
Dan\0Rougold Plonker and M. Random-Delling 
\*([oSome Thoughts about Bibs on Webs\*([c, 
\fIJournal of Unpublishable Papers\fP, Vol. 3, 2, 1995, pp 1-32.

LaTeX Format

Entries are returned in a form suitable for printing with LaTeX, without further preprocessing. For example:

\bibitem{}
Dan~Rougold Plonker and M. Random-Delling ``Some Thoughts about Bibs on Webs'', 
{\em Journal of Unpublishable Papers}, Vol. 3, 2, 1995, pp 1-32.

Maintained by Doug Arnold (doug#essex.ac.uk) 19th August 1995