Difference between BibTex and BibLaTeX database?

buhtz · December 5, 2016, 2:15pm

Thank you very much for your explanation!
It sounds like I should use BibLaTeX when creating a new database.

But why then is the “default bibliography mode” set to “Bibtex”?

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