A main feature of WibTeX is the interface to BibTeX, a TeX package by Oren Patashnik. TeX is a professional and free document preparation system. Many books and especially scientific texts are set in TeX. BibTeX permits to cite from a central database file and has many formatting features. This way references once typed are available in all new documents, and the table of references can be generated automatically.

WibTeX also provides an interface to Microsoft Word (version 2000 and above). You may not only store the entire database in a rich text file (RTF) or a web document (HTM) but also make individual configurations as to: selection of fields, sequence, preceding and following characters, formatting.

Since version 7.3, support has been added for OpenOffice Writer, basically with the same functions that are available for the Word interface. Direct quoting in LyX is being supported since version 7.4 - given you have a LyX installation no older than version 1.6.5.