BibDesk - an application/database to manage your bibliography - kindly suggest to read the BibTex Intro if you are not familiar with it at all. That's how it *starts*:

Here's a trivial example to help illustrate. First we have a macro definition:

@string{PACT = "International Conference on Processors,
Architectures and Compilation Techniques"}

Next a single entry:

@proceedings{pact02,
booktitle = PACT,
Year = 2002,
Month = sep,
Address = "Harvard Square"}

The terminology we'll use to describe the entry is as follows:
@publication-type{citation-key, field-name = value}

Any value can be either a quoted string (using either `""' or `{}') or a number, or a macro (like `PACT' in the above example).

What? Where? How? Huh?

No wonder there are still people following the advise Mr. Eco gave 1989 stuffing a very real filing box with very real cards.



Like I did for a couple of month when I started studying.