To make a papers-collection cdrom, I need a bibliographic file in "refer" format. Here are some refer files, as examples: http://auditorymodels.org/jba/Bibs/NetBib/Data.in/refer/ Download a refer file, and study it (not the papers, the format ;-) Then look at: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/refer.html and if you have the stomach for more: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/endnote.html A program that does refer editing (for both Windose and Linux) may be found under a distribution call "sixpack." http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/ To run the sixpack package (you might consider that) you would need "perl" on your computer. (Perl is a programing language that sixpack is written in.) You do not need sixpack to do what I am asking. You just need your good old trusty edit/vi/emacs or whatever text editing command. Sixpack tries to make the job easier by giving you a GUI. Scroll down the sixpack help page (above URL), and you will come to a table, with bibtex at the top, and "refer" second. That is the format you want. If you have a windows package called "endnote" which is expensive, I believe, it can dump refer format. So that is another option, depending on your situation.