Pybtex reads citation information from a file and produces a formatted bibliography. BibTeX style files are supported. Alternatively it is possible to write styles in Python.

Pybtex currently understands the following bibliography formats:

• BibTeX
• BibTeXML
• YAML-based format

The resulting bibliography may be output in one of the following formats (not supported by legacy BibTeX styles):

• LaTeX
• HTML
• markdown
• plain text