CrossT E X: A modern bibliography management tool
Robert G. Burgess · 2007
CrossTEX is a new bibliography management tool that eases database maintenance, style customization, and citation. It is based on an object-oriented data model that minimizes redundant information in bibliographic databases. It enables a work to be cited not only through arbitrarily-assigned object keys but through semantic information that uniquely identifies the work. It automates common tasks in order to avoid human errors and inconsistencies in bibliographies, while providing users with fine-grained control. CrossTEX’s other features include support for modern reference objects such as URLs and patents, direct generation of HTML documents, the ability to write styles in a modern programming language, and extensive databases of published works included in the distribution. It is backwards-compatible with existing BibTEX databases, and, overall, builds on BibTEX’s strengths while fundamentally fixing the design restrictions that lead to errors in BibTEX-formatted documents. 1