LaTeX Style and BiBTeX Bibliography Formats for Biologists: TeX and LaTeX Resources. By Tom Schneider Can your word processor do these?
Examples from The TeX showcase LaTeX is a typesetting language that runs circles around standard word processing programs because ... it is a true language. This means you can define new commands and do rather complex things. It is not really any harder to use than standard word processing programs such as wordY or wordIMperfect but it beats them hands down. The Open Source Howto Development Web Site.