Bibliography format question

[Patricia Shanahan]

My next step on the distributed, fault tolerant transaction management 
issue will be to wrote an annotated bibliography. Designing and proving 
correctness of protocols and algorithms in this area is not easy, so it 
is worth some reading and library search time to make sure we benefit 
from all available research.

Is there is preferred way of doing this? Left to myself, I would use 
BibTex for the references, and write the notes in LaTex.

Is anyone else likely to want to edit the document? If so, what are 
their opinions about the document and bibliography format? Is there an 
Apache way of doing something like this?

Regardless of the source format, the document will be available as a 
.pdf file, so anyone can use it.

Patricia