It is identical to the html output, it just that odt doesn't render the html tags. You can just customize that variable to get rid of the html markers, and then it will look better. I don't know how to get bold/italics in odt though. 

John

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On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>>> "John" == John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

   > Export to backends other than LaTeX have pretty limited support.
   > I assume by a lot of rubbish you mean there is a lot of html markers in
   > the bibliography.

Right.

   > You can customize how these are formatted to some extent in the
   > variable: org-ref-bibliography-entry-format

   > This is not a citation preprocessor though, so it will not do things
   > like numbered references, or handle markup in the bibtex entries.

I would be happy if the odt output were similar or identical to the
html output.


   > You might check out https://github.com/andras-simonyi/citeproc-org, it
   > might have more capability along those lines.

Thanks