What is BibTeX?
BibTex 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 that is separate from the LaTeX source file, wth a file extension of .bib. 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 BibTeX, see the section of the Athena On-Line Help System’s LaTeX documentation called Using a Bibliography.