Bibtex is a database with an entry per bibliographic reference. To make citations in your paper, do this sort of thing, use the tag whose name you get to make up, as in \cite{BrownDICTA:95}. @inproceedings (BrownDICTA:95, author = "C. M. Brown", title = "Control For and By Computer Vision", booktitle = "Proceedings, DICTA-95, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications", month = "December", year = "1995", pages = "1--7", address = "Brisbane, Australia", annote = "" ) @inproceedings (Carceroni:94, author = "R. L. Carceroni and M. L. B. Carvalho", title = "A Comparative Analysis of Recurrent Neural Network Models in Time Series Forecasting", booktitle = "Proceedings, Brazilian Symposium in Neural Networks", month = "", year = "1994", pages = "", address = "", annote = "In this paper we performed a comparative analysis between two recurrent neural network models: the Cascade Correlation Model and the Gamma Model. In particular we measured the performance of each of these models in a problem of electrical energy demand forecasting. The tests performed showed that forecasts based on the Gamma Model are more accurate and regular. Furthermore, the Gamma Model's training method was found to be more effective concerning computational resource requirements. However, forecasts performed with the two models have been very similar, indicating that both of them are suited to this specific task. " ) @TechReport{brown:04, author = {C.M. Brown and P. Barnum and D. Costello and G. Ferguson and B. Hu and M. Van Wie}, title = {Quake II as a Robotic and Multi-Agent Platform}, institution = {University of Rochester Computer Science Department}, year = 2004, number = 853, month = {October}, note = {In DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1042} } @book{Maciunas:98, author = "G. Barnett and D. W. Roberts and R. J. Maciunas", title = "Image-Guided Surgery: Clinical applications of surgical navigation", address = "St. Louis, MO", publisher = "Quality Medical Publishers", year = "1998" } @Article{Kutulakos1996c, Author="Kiriakos N. Kutulakos and James R. Vallino", Title="Non-Euclidean Object Representations for Calibration-free Video Overlay", Journal="Proc. International Workshop on Object Representation for Computer Vision", Year=1996} @article{NelsonIJCV:91a, author = "R. C. Nelson", title = "Vision as Intelligent Behavior: Research in Machine Vision at the University of Rochester", journal = "International Journal of Computer Vision", month = "November", year = "1991", volume = "7", number = "1", pages = "5-9"} URLS: no easy answers I know of. they're messy. Even if you find a paper on the web, often there's a "real" reference in the literature. Where there's nothing but web material, try this maybe... @misc{..., ..., howpublished = "\url{http://...}" }