Is there any way to have BibTeX or biblatex insert a bibliography without having citations in the body of the document itself? Maybe a way to hide the in-text citations, so that BibTeX still sees them and includes them in the bibliography, but does not print them in the body?
[Tex/LaTex] Using BibTeX/biblatex to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document
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Very short answer: this is simply not possible at the moment. biblatex doesn't support multiple styles in one document. biblatex 2.0 which is due soon will support multiple sorting schemes, but that's it for the moment.
Maybe a feature request is in order here.
You may want to change to BiblaTex, it is the future since it's much more customizable than BibTex.
You can do what you asked for using this*:
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\enumerate{}
{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\bibhang}%
\setlength{\itemindent}{-\leftmargin}%
\setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
\setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}}
{\endenumerate}
{\item}
*I took it from this question. When you put this in the preamble, you will get what you need:
If you decide to move to Biblatex, you may want to use Biber as the backend. Finally, these two questions will help you a lot to change. What to do to switch to biblatex? and How to use biber.
Best Answer
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 tokey1,key2,...,keyn.