[Tex/LaTex] Using both BBL and BIB in one LaTeX document

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I have a .bib file that contains information about some of my papers. I also have a .bbl file, automatically produced by BibTeX, that contains the compiled information (\bibitem{} series) of another set of papers.

How can I use both .bib and .bbl in one LaTeX document? If I simply use \input for the BBL, the numberings of references (and even themselves) will not be correct. A solution that let's me decompile the .bbl also works.

In this very case, using .bbl is no problem because it's in the bibliography style I am using. Also, all references in .bbl will be used in the file document.

Best Answer

I would forget about the bbl until the paper is just about finished, then generate a bbl from the bib one last time and merge both bbl files by hand, hand-adjusting the numbers.

The citations will be automatically correct as they refer to the \bibitem commands in the bbl.

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