I have a paper (written in Sci Word, but I think that's irrelevant) and I would like to format the bibliography to match a journal's style guide. The authors did the references manually, so I need to generate a bibliography in tex that I can just cut-and-paste into the references section.
It seems the easiest way is to generate my own .bib file with the references and somehow trick bibtex into giving the tex output that I can save to a text file (the authors don't want me to link the references with \cite{}s or edit the body of the paper).
Is this possible? Or are the only solutions at the extremes (i.e., doing the \cite{}s or completely manually generating the bibliography)? Thanks!
\nocite{*}will cause all the items in the.bibfile to be included in the.bblfile, which you can then cut and paste. actually, this has been covered before in Using BibTeX to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document? – barbara beeton Mar 28 '13 at 13:57