JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager.
The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the
standard LaTeX bibliography format.b JabRef runs on the 
Java VM (version 1.6 or newer), and should work equally 
well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

BibTeX is an application and a bibliography file format 
written by Oren Patashnik and Leslie Lamport for the LaTeX
document preparation system. Bibliographies generated by 
LaTeX and BibTeX from a BibTeX file can be formatted to suit 
any reference list specifications through the use of different 
BibTeX style files.