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Citations with no bibliography at the end
I have a document with a very tight space restriction and I've found that it is easier to compact my references by copying them from a compiled PDF into the document. However this obviously gives two copies of the bibliography in the document. Is there any way in which to compile the references for a document, so that the citations are numbered correctly etc. but not actually print the references?
You haven't provided a compilable MWE, so it's not possible to be sure what's going on. In an earlier version of your posting, you had the line
\bibliographystyle{splncs}
in the code. However, the file splncs.bst does not appear to be a part of either the TeXlive2011 or the MikTeX2.9 distribution, and it's not on the CTAN either. Assuming that no such file is present in your TeX distribution, this would explain why no bibliography is being generated. (Have you checked your log file for any complaints about a nonexistent style file?) Conversely, if I add the line \documentclass{memoir} to the top of your code as well as something like \bibliographystyle{plain} and a couple of dummy citation commands, your code (minus the three \input statements, of course) has no difficulty in creating a bibliography.
In short, I suggest you either locate the file splncs.bst somewhere on the 'net and install it on your system or use a different bibliography style file altogether.
\bibliography{<file>} denotes the name of the <file>.bib that contains your BibTeX references, while \bibliographystyle{<bibstyle>} denotes the style you want your references displayed in. You clearly want one \bibliography only:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@article{example,
author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
year = {1986},
title = {The {\TeX} book},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{document}
Alpha particles~\cite{example} (named after and denoted by the first letter in the
Greek alphabet,~$\alpha$) consist of two protons and two neutrons bound
together. This means that an particle is a helium nucleus.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{references}
\end{document}
Best Answer
run your document as usual and then run it one time with a commented
%\blibliography{...}