There exist two major ways of defining a bibliography:
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Embedded
Declare
\begin{thebibliography}
at the end of your file and use \bibitem . The entries look like\bibitem{amin1} S.~P. Beeby, M.~J. Tudor, and N.~White, ``Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications,'' {\em Measurement science and technology}~{\bf 17}(12), p.~R175, 2006.
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Using BibTeX- The entries are stored in a .bib file. The entries look like :-
@article{amin1, title={Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications}, author={Beeby, S Pꎬ and Tudor, M Jꎬ and White, NM}, journal={Measurement science and technology}, volume={17}, number={12}, pages={R175}, year={2006}, publisher={IOP Publishing} }
Is there an easy, automated way to convert entries from 2 to 1.
I have been using format 2, i.e using a bib file. But I want to switch to format 1 without manually changing all the entries. Is this possible?
Best Answer
The conversion from a BibTeX
.bib
file to an embeddedthebibliography
environment depends on the bibliography style you're after. The style defines the layout and formatting of specific@type
references.The suggestion would be to:
Use BibTeX to compile your file under the specific style you're interested in. For example,
When compiled using LaTeX > BibTeX > LaTeX > LaTeX, the above minimal example (called
filename.tex
) createsfilename.bbl
:BibTeX already took care of the formatting and layout, as well as the sort order (if that has been specified in some way, even using a different package).
Exchange
for
in your code.