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I am autogenerating several LaTeX documents from the same base. Some of them have a \cite inside, so I want to include a Bibliography. I am using bibtex and it is perfectly working.

However sometimes, I can have a document without any \cite inside, thus my final document appears with an Empty bibliography. Is it possible to include a bibliography only it there are references in it? Of course, because documents are autogenerated, I need to have the same management for all documents, so not calling bibtex is not an acceptable solution for me.

Przemysław Scherwentke
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    With biblatex/biber this would work automatically: \printbibliography prints only something if there is an entry. – Ulrike Fischer Nov 22 '13 at 10:12
  • @UlrikeFischer Do you want to make that into an answer? – Johannes_B Apr 23 '17 at 09:34
  • Related: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74476/how-to-avoid-empty-thebibliography-environment-bibtex-if-there-are-no-refere?rq=1 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/463498/printing-the-bibliography-conditionally-by-hooking-cite-to-toggle-a-boolean – Mars May 13 '19 at 20:38
  • (I'm disappointed that the only answer suggests biblatex. I'll try it, but I recall that I had previously decided that I needed to avoid biblatex. Can't find the remarks on TeX.SE that lead me to that conclusion, though.) – Mars May 13 '19 at 20:47

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With biblatex/biber this would work automatically: \printbibliography prints only something if there is an entry.

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