I personally use biblatex these days, since it's more expressive than bibtex, has good tool support (I use emacs), can be easily converted to other formats (including MODS), etc.

On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 7:13:33 AM UTC-5, James AUSTIN wrote:

Hi everyone
For years I have been storing my bibliographic information in  .bib
files. Unfortunately I am not finding that the .bib format is
particularly human readable or extensible. Looking around for
alternatives, I was wondering if Pandoc can read from .xml files and if
so, how one would create a reference. I have tried to do this but
pandoc-citeproc tells me that my reference cannot be found. Also, can
anyone point me in the direction of a good introduction to learning YMAL
please, as I have seen this mentioned in the user guide as an
alternative to .bib.
Thank you.
Best wishes
James