bibliographiesbibtex
I have a LaTeX document with bibliography done using bibtex (so I have a .bib file). However, looks like my current collaborator is not familiar with bibtex and doesn't want to get familiar (as he is considerably more senior I can't really force him to anything).
Is there an automated way to generate \bibitem entries from my bibtex file, so that I could just copy these into the version I will send to my collaborator?
I finally managed to solve this problem on my own:
Jabref was encoding the bib-files in 16bit and Bibtex was expecting 8bit-code. After switching to 8bit in the Jabref-options the problem solved itself.
Thank you so much for all your efforts.
Here's a way (code courtesy of Alan Munn).
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Labov1972,
Address = {Philadelphia},
Author = {William Labov},
Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
Year = {1972}}
@book{Chomsky1957,
Address = {The Hague},
Author = {Noam Chomsky},
Publisher = {Mouton},
Title = {Syntactic Structures},
Year = {1957}}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib,etoolbox,lipsum,hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{MyBstFile}
% increase \bibhang to take care of the numbers
\setlength{\bibhang}{2pc}
\makeatletter
% patch \@lbibitem to print the current number before the authors
\patchcmd{\@lbibitem}
{]}
{][\theNAT@ctr] }
{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\cite{Chomsky1957,Labov1972} \lipsum[2]
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
I added hyperref just to be sure that the anchors are correctly set (they are).
This simple patch has the defect that numbers are not aligned to the last digit. For this a more complicated route should be taken: I decided to write in the aux file the last number, so we can set the widest label at the next run.
Thanks to Alan Munn for providing meaningful references.
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Labov1972,
Address = {Philadelphia},
Author = {William Labov},
Publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
Title = {Sociolinguistic Patterns},
Year = {1972}}
@book{Chomsky1957,
Address = {The Hague},
Author = {Noam Chomsky},
Publisher = {Mouton},
Title = {Syntactic Structures},
Year = {1957}}
@article{Barker1998,
Author = {Chris Barker},
Journal = {Natural Language \& Linguistic Theory},
Pages = {679-717},
Title = {Partitives, Double Genitives and Anti-Uniqueness},
Volume = {16},
Year = {1998}}
@book{Berwick1985,
Address = {Cambridge, MA},
Author = {Berwick, Robert C.},
Publisher = {MIT Press},
Title = {Acquisition of syntactic knowledge},
Year = {1985}}
@phdthesis{Carlson1977,
Author = {Carlson, Gregory N.},
School = {University of Massachusetts, Amherst},
Title = {Reference to Kinds in {E}nglish},
Year = {1977}}
@book{Carlson1995,
Address = {Chicago},
Editor = {Carlson, Gregory N. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffrey},
Publisher = {Chicago University Press},
Title = {The Generic Book},
Year = {1995}}
@article{Chierchia1998,
Author = {Gennaro Chierchia},
Journal = {Natural Language Semantics},
Pages = {339-405},
Title = {Reference to Kinds across Languages},
Volume = {6},
Year = {1998}}
@book{Crain1998,
Address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts},
Author = {Crain, Stephen and Thornton, Rosalind},
Publisher = {The MIT Press},
Title = {Investigations in {U}niversal {G}rammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics},
Year = {1998}}
@article{Dayal2004,
Author = {Dayal, Veneeta},
Journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy},
Number = {4},
Pages = {393--450},
Title = {Number Marking and (In)Definiteness in Kind Terms},
Volume = {27},
Year = {2004}}
@article{Dobrovie-Sorin1998b,
Author = {Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Brenda Laca},
Journal = {Actes de Langues et Grammaires},
Pages = {165-179},
Title = {La g{\'e}nericit{\'e} entre la r{\'e}f{\'e}rence {\`a} l'esp{\`e}ce et la quantification g{\'e}n{\'e}rique},
Volume = {III},
Year = {1998}}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib,etoolbox,lipsum,hyperref}
\bibliographystyle{MyBstFile}
% increase \bibhang to take care of the numbers (adjust at will)
\setlength{\bibhang}{2pc}
\makeatletter
% patch \@lbibitem to print the current number before the authors
\patchcmd{\@lbibitem}
{]}
{]\bbl@box{\theNAT@ctr} }
{}{}
% add to the aux file the information about the last number
\apptocmd{\endthebibliography}
{\if@filesw\write\@mainaux{\string\bbl@lastnumber{\theNAT@ctr}}\fi}
{}{}
% allocate a length, set to a provisional value
\newlength{\bbl@lastnumberwd}
\setlength\bbl@lastnumberwd{0pt}
% this command will be in the aux file and sets the widest label width
\newcommand\bbl@lastnumber[1]{%
\settowidth\dimen@{[#1]}%
\global\bbl@lastnumberwd\dimen@}
% a command to print the number
\newcommand{\bbl@box}[1]{%
\makebox[\bbl@lastnumberwd][r]{[#1]}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\cite{Chomsky1957,Labov1972} \lipsum[2]
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
\bibitems are in the.bblfile generated by BibTeX. Just run it once and copy them from this file.If required you can use
\nocite{*}in your document to force the citation of all entries of the.bibfile.