I'm editing a book written by multiple authors. We ha agreed on formatting the bibliography using bibtex with the style \bibliographystyle{spmpsci}.
However, some of the authors used the thebibliography environment directly in the main file.
\begin{thebibliography}{10}
\bibitem{frag}
G.~Aggarwal, M.~Bawa, P.~Ganesan, H.~Garcia-Molina, K.~Kenthapadi, R.~Motwani,
U.~Srivastava, D.~Thomas, and Y.~Xu.
\newblock Two can keep a secret: {A} distributed architecture for secure
database services.
\newblock In {\em Proc. of CIDR 2005}, Asilomar, CA, USA, January 2005.
\end{thebibliography}{10}
I can't find a way to change the bibliography style of the references produced by thebibliography (they are stet in style "plain").
I tried to add the comman \bibliographystyle{spmpsci} before the beginning of thebibliography environment and it clearly doesn't work (I really did'nt think it would have, but who knows). I read through the documentation and around the internet but couldn't find anything really helpful.
Am I missing something really easy? Is it possible at all? or I should lose hope and devote half a day to rewrite the bibitems into a bibtex file?
Any input will be much appreciated.
Best Answer
I'd recommend to save the contents of
thebibliography
into a.bbl
fikem convert the bibliography to bib using one of the methods listed here Convert .bbl file to .bib file, (I especially like http://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/) and then reprocess with bibtex. It is a cumbersome process, but you are trying to recreate a cow from steaks...