Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BIB file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert BIB to another file type
The converter easily converts your BIB file to various formats - free and online. No Word or extra software needed.
BIB to PDF
BIB to XML
BIB to RTF
BIB to DOCX
BIB to ODT
Convert a file to BIB
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Text formats to BIB with high quality output.
DOCX to BIB
RTF to BIB
About BIB files
A .BIB file is a text-based bibliographic database used primarily by BibTeX within the LaTeX typesetting system to organize lists of references. It stores citation details - such as author names, titles, publication dates, and DOIs - in a structured, bracketed format designed for academic publishing. While .BIB files are the gold standard for scientific documentation and managing large libraries of references in Overleaf or JabRef, their raw text format is unintuitive for non-technical users and incompatible with standard word processors like Microsoft Word. Users frequently encounter syntax errors if brackets are mismatched, and the file itself does not display formatted citations until compiled by a LaTeX engine. To share bibliographic data with colleagues using EndNote or Zotero, or to analyze citation data in a spreadsheet, you should convert your .BIB file to RIS (for reference managers), CSV (for Excel), or JSON (for web applications).
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your BIB file.
If you want to convert BIB file to RIS, BBL, CSV, APA, TXT, DOC or PAGES, you can use BibTeX or similar software from the "Bibliographic Reference Management" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, JPG, TXT or NOTE files to BIB, try BibTeX or another comparable tool in the "Bibliographic Reference Management" category.
The BIB Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BIB converter.