BibTeX

BibTeX works through a tagging system similarly to its sister program LaTeX.  An example of a BibTeX citation downloaded directly from ACS is shown below:

@article{doi:10.1021/jacs.6b12934,

author = {Błoński, Piotr and Tuček, Jiří and Sofer, Zdenĕk and Mazánek, Vlastimil and Petr, Martin and Pumera, Martin and Otyepka, Michal and Zbořil, Radek},

title = {Doping with Graphitic Nitrogen Triggers Ferromagnetism in Graphene},

journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},

volume = {139},

number = {8},

pages = {3171–3180},

year = {2017},

doi = {10.1021/jacs.6b12934},

note ={PMID 28110530},

URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b12934},

eprint = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b12934}

}

This block of code can be formatted in the style of your choice.  For example, \bibliographystyle{achemso} will produce an ACS-style citation.

(1) Błoński, P.; Tuček, J.; Sofer, Z.; Maz´anek, V.; Petr, M.; Pumera, M.; Otyepka, M.; Zbořil, R. Doping with Graphitic Nitrogen Triggers Ferromagnetism in Graphene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 3171-3180.

A BibTeX record comprises multiple pieces of metadata, separated by commas.  Each field has a name and corresponds to a specific piece of information about the article.  These fields need to be structured in specific formats.  For example, names are formatted as {Last1, First1 and Last2, First2 and Last3, First3 and …}.  Additionally, each record is prefaced with an “@” tag that can vary based on the type of the information being cited, such as book, article, patent, etc.