LaTeX will use the .bbl file, perhaps edited by the user, to produce the reference list.

History

BibTeX was created by Oren Patashnik and Leslie Lamport in 1985. The program is written in WEB/Pascal.

Version 0.98f was released in March 1985.

With version 0.99c (released February 1988), a stationary state was reached for 22 years.

In March 2010,