To actually use the bibliography in your paper, you need to add the following commands in your L^AT_EX file (these commands are usually can be found at the end of the document - where the “References” section to appear):

\bibliography{foo}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

Here, foo is the name of your bib file created with KBibTeX and “plain” is the name of bibliography style.

There is a plenty of specific bibliography styles. Please consult your publisher for the one to choose or try and find the one that suits the best for your purposes.

Below is a list of some generic styles available everywhere:

So you can use your L^AT_EX editor's capabilities (please consult the editor documentation for this) or just enter the following code in a generic text editor then save the file with tex name extension.

\documentclass{article}
 \begin{document}
 \bibliographystyle{plain}% Choose a bibliographic style
 Test file with a reference (see~\cite{Lamport86}).
 \bibliography{example}
 \end{document}

For our testing purposes, let this file be named example.tex.

Now that you have the basis for a document, you have to run both latex and bibtex to process it.

First, you should run latex (to create a foo.aux file, which bibtex reads). Then run bibtex once to get some of the citations and create a bbl file. Then run latex again so that the cross references between the text file and the bibliography are correct. You may want to repeat running bibtex and latex on the file to make sure that all cross references are correct. Be warned that adding/deleting citations and sources will require running bibtex again.

Thus, the following commands can be used to compile the document from console:

latex example
bibtex example
latex example
latex example

Now, you can see the results as a DVI or PDF file (the format depends on your configuration), stored in the same folder as your source files.