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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:35, Mingfeng Yang wrote:
> But what I want to know is the format of the reference. For example,
> some journals need the reference in "author, journal, time, page"
> format, and the citation in the text should be in superscript or in
> parenthesis or bracket etc. I googled, and  found out that bibtex can
> handle this according to a corresponding  bibliography style file. But
> the grammar of this file looks very complicated. :(

Usually you just take a standard one (alpha or plain, say). If your journal 
wants you to use a particular one they usually provide it.
If not, try to find a bst file that does what you want.
Here is a start:

http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/computing/software/tex/doc/texhelp/bibtex-c.html

Bas