Custom references page with additional line breaks

Question

Is it possible by any chance to style the references page to match this:

[1] The Author, The Author2
    "The title of some kind"
    3rd. edition ISBN: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

Answer 1

You can add the openbib option to the global options, for instance

\documentclass[a4paper,openbib]{report}

All the standard classes should honor it, but it may depend on the bibliography style you're using. More information is needed if this doesn't work.

Here's an example (the filecontents* environment is just to have a unique input file):

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{knuth:texbook,
  author =       {Donald E. Knuth},
  title =        {The {\TeX}book},
  publisher =    {Addison Wesley},
  address =      {Reading, MA, USA},
  year =         1986,
  ISBN =         "0-201-13447-0",
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[a4paper,openbib]{report}

\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Answer 2

I guess you need to create your own bibtex style. It is normally not an easy task, but you can use a GUI tool for doing this easily as described here: http://bib-it.sourceforge.net/help/generateBibstyle.php