I am writing a monograph in TexStudio on Windows with Miktex. I use the Springer svmono templates. My e-books, articles and notes are stored in a local Calibre database. My question is about references.
The svmono templates come with a file for references. Each reference looks like this.
\bibitem{science-contrib} Broy, M.: Software engineering --- from auxiliary to key technologies. In: Broy, M., Dener, E. (eds.) Software Pioneers, pp. 10-13. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)
What is \bibitem and what does it do, how does it work?
Calibre has an option to output bibtex information but it produces the following file ( after I tweaked with the fields to use ) which Windows reports to be a Bibtex Database and has the following contents.
%%%Calibre catalog %%%78 entries in catalog
@preamble{"This catalog of 78 entries was generated by calibre on dinsdag, 21. juli 2015 23:29"}
@book{ DavidFinston1134,
title = "Abstract Algebra: Structure and Application (Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology)",
author = "David Finston",
isbn = "978-33-1904-497-2",
year = "2014",
month = "aug",
publisher = "Birkhäuser",
volume = "1" }
What is this ? Why doesn't it use \bibitem?
I would like to export bookdata from Calibre in to a format such that TexStudio with the svmono class file can use it to generate a Reference chapter to cite from.