I have an old document written in LaTeX which I need to edit/re-write. The document has hundreds of citations without using BibTex but just old style thebibliography environment and \bibitem's. Now I would like to re-use the old bibliographic references and add new ones but using BibTex. Is there a way I can re-use my old references? The thing that comes to mind is a script or something which translates \bibitem's entry and put them into BibTex format, but any solution is welcome.
By the way, a (admittedly superficial) search on google and stack exchange did not provide any solution.
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Use \nocite{*} in the body of your document to include all the references in the .bib database. To include only some bibliographical entries, you can use \nocite{key1,key2,...,keyn} to include only the entries corresponding to key1,key2,...,keyn.
You can try bibtex.online, it converts BibTeX to formatted text in many formats (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver...).
No installation is required since it runs in the browser.
Example:
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Based on a quick google search, there are a couple of scripts that might work:
tex2bib: http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bibconvertbibliohttp://www.mi.infm.it/manini/scripts/convertbiblio.pyUsual caveats of course apply to running scripts from the internet! As others have indicated, you will likely have to clean your entries up manually. Scraping bibliographic data from formatted entries is not trivial, especially if you use a heavily customized style.
Credit to the TeX FAQ for linking to tex2bib.