Software that I have looked at - Not a comprehensive list.-
LaTeX/BibTeX is the de facto standard for publications in several fields of the "hard sciences" (physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering). BibTeX is citation formating and a text bibliographic database tool. Its database format for bibliographical references is used in or is able to be imported and exported by most other bibliographic tools.. For some info see http://bib2web.djvuzone.org/bibtex.html
It has many bibliographic style macros that format citations to many different style specifications. BibTeX styles definition files are small programs written in an un-named programing language [FORTH like]. Bibtex is the bibliographic subsystem it provides the widely used BibTeX bibliographic database format which looks like this -
@INBOOK{chicago,edition = "Thirteenth",
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List of bibTeX document types and field definitions, with some hints on use list of bibTeX document types and field definitions, with some hints on use.
List of bibtex supported citations styles List of bibtex supported citations styles.
Document which explains how to hack the style macros Document which explains how to hack the style macros.
A very popular and widely used Bibliographic package. Recommended by many Universities.
Platform: Windows, Mac
Description: Integrates three key bibliographical tasks within the one package: the searching of remote bibliographical databases on the Internet; the organisation of references in a database, and the creation of bibliographies. EndNote can be fully integrated with Word and other Windows word-processing software. Documents can be scanned and shorthand citations expanded and complete bibliographies created. EndNote libraries created on different platforms are compatible with each other. Home Page http://www.endnote.com
Sixpack is a graphical and command-line bibliography database manager written in Perl/Tk. It interacts with the supplied package 'bp', (see below) which can import and export from a number of formats including bibtex, endnote, medline, procite, and many others. It can download references directly off the Web, and open articles using external viewers. It can also interface with Emacs/XEmacs and Lyx [LaTeX with a GUI interface] . It also has instructions on how to interact with OpenOfiice / StarOffice using cvs files and database import functions [I have used this]. Home Page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sixpack
bp is a Perl library that is designed to:
Developer - My first goal when designing the package was only the first -- I had written a number of tools that accessed my BibTeX bibliographies, and I saw that I was reusing a lot of code. So I decided to make a generic package to access BibTeX bibliographies. About a year later I decided that it would be even better if the package could read multiple formats, and convert between them. The result is bp. Parts of the package are still missing (namely documentation, automatic format recognition, and a good set of utilities), but everything needed for a working system exists. Home Page - http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/bp/index.html
gBib is a user-friendly Gnome BibTeX database browser and editor. It provides facilities for merging BibTeX files, managing key conflicts, and adding bibliographic citations in LyX. Home Page - http://gbib.seul.org
Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. The application is based written in Python and has a text-based and a GTK GUI interface It supports several bibliography formats and can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc.. Due to its nature, it can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). Pybliographer has a class library structure that could allow other applications to make use of it's facilities. It might be possible to provide a link from this program to insert citations into OpenOffice. There are only a few citation styles defined so far. Home Page - http://www.gnome.org/pybliographer
Kaspaliste is a literature and knowledge database. It handles all kinds of books, articles, journals, web pages etc. But the database goes beyond simply storing bibliographical information. There is the possibility to create annotated links between pieces of information (like the content of a book chapter) and to group the links in categories. It is based on KDE and uses the Postgres relational database. It is a promising project but currently does not have import or export functions other than a Bibtex export. There are no links to other programs such as OpenOffice . http://site.voila.fr/janmueller
Extended BibTeX citation support for the humanities and legal texts. jurabib is a package for the LaTeX typesetting system and supports citations used in the humanities and by German law students. This package enables automated citation with BIBTEX for legal studies and the humanities. In addition, the package provides commands for specifying editors in a commentary in a convenient way. Simplified formatting of the citation as well as the bibliography entry is also provided. It is possible to display the (short) title of a work only if an authors is cited with multiple works. Giving a full citation in the text, conforming to the bibliography entry, is supported. Several options are provided which might be of special interest for those outside legal studies--for instance, displaying multiple full citations. In addition, the format of last names and first names of authors may be changed easily. Cross references to other footnotes are possible. Language dependent handling of bibliography entries is possible by the special language field. Home Page http://www.jurabib.org/