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Support for bibliographies is integrated in mkiv MkIV’s and LMTX's LMTX’s core (for the curious, the files are named [https://source.contextgarden.net/?search=bibl-tra bibl-tra]. Two other important sources of information are: * [http[manual://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mkiv-publications.pdf |Bibliographies manual]]

For older ConTeXt mkiiMkII, support for bibliographies was added by Taco. The '''[[Bibliography_mkii|Bibliography mkii]]''' page explains a few basic facts and points you to the manual of the module.

TeX offers excellent ways to handle bibliographic references. bibTeX BibTeX allows you to use a database to manage your references and to insert citations and a list of references into your document. If you're you’re completely new to this subject, you should probably begin to read some basic hints about bibTeX BibTeX databases. You will find a good selection of resources (most of them are free and available on-line) at the section "Bibliographies “Bibliographies and Citations" Citations” of the [[http://texfaq.net/index.html#Bibliographiesandcitations TeX faq]]. A good place for beginners is Nicolas Markey’s [[http://mirror.ctan.org/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf Tame the Beast]]. If you have TeXLive installed, it may already be on your hard disk.

ConTeXt MkIV Bibliography can read several different formats of bibliographic databases:

ConTeXt is independent from the BibTeX program, but can read .bib databases, if it’s they’re not too polluted with non-standarddized standardized (LaTeX) commands.

Note: Only apa , aps, and aps chicago styles are currently provided as a showcase.