- Extension
- .ris
- .bib
- Format
- Text
- Text
- Category
- Document
- Document
- Developer
- Research Information Systems
- Oren Patashnik and Leslie Lamport
- Description
- RIS is a standardized tagged text format for encoding bibliographic citations and reference information, such as author, title, and publication date. It is used to exchange citation data between reference management software like EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley. Each record consists of labeled tag-value pairs representing different bibliographic fields.
- BibTeX is a plain-text file format used to store bibliographic reference information such as authors, titles, and publication details. It is used alongside LaTeX documents to manage citations and automatically generate formatted bibliographies and reference lists.
- MIME Type
- application/x-research-info-systems
- application/x-bibtex