[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX in LaTeX document

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For referencing in my LaTeX documents, I use the thebibliography command. However most of the times I find the information of my citations in BibTeX format. Manually editing BibTeX file to convert them to \bibitem is exhausting. I want to know if there is any method for importing a bibTeX file or a command which could understand the text structure of a BibTeX file in LaTeX?

Best Answer

If you really want to follow this way, you can create a new document, let's say test.tex with the following contents:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}

where biblio is the name of your .bib file.

Then run

pdflatex test

bibtex test

pdflatex test

pdflatex test

At this point, open the file test.bbl and copy its contents to your original .tex file

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