Format a manuscript

When a researcher writes a paper for publication, he or she cannot avoid citing works done by others. If there is only one rule to cite previous works, there will be probably no need for bibliographic software to exist and writing will be less time consuming. Unfortunately, there are thousands of styles used to cite references. Almost each journal has its own unique rules. To make things worse, a researcher submits different papers to different journals, so he or she has to remember several sets of rules regarding citing references. The same paper may also have to be submitted to more than one journal for publishing in case it is rejected by a journal's editors.

Bibliographic software was first born in the late 1970s and early 1980s to solve the problems mentioned above. Instead of remembering citation rules from different journals, you just insert temporary citations in your manuscript and let the bibliographic software to do the tedious work for you. The software will generate formatted citations and a bibliography.