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I'm preparing a manuscript, and the appendices are supposed to be in a different file. I'm using bibTeX to manage my references.

I would like to cite references in the appendices. Is there a way to pull the source number from the main document?

E.g., bibliography output in main document:

[1] a source

[2] another source

[3] extra source

External document:

And this is due to \cite{another_source_label}

should produce

"And this is due to [2]"

which would match the numbering in the main document.

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    I think the easiest way would be to use the same bibliography file but to "hide" the References list. This question seems to address this point: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31373/12921 – Alfredo Hernández Jun 06 '15 at 01:20
  • Well, of course, to make sure you keep the same numbering, you should \nocite{} all your previously used references. – Alfredo Hernández Jun 06 '15 at 01:23
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    If I understand your question, is the easiest not to compile them as one document and split the resulting pdf afterwards? – Aubrey Blumsohn Jun 06 '15 at 03:03
  • @Aubrey Blumsohn The master template I'm using unfortunately has page numbers at the bottom, including the total page numbers. I tried to adjust (stop) the page numbers using 
    \pagenumbering{gobble}

    but that didn't work because then the total number of pages was blank. I know how to manually adjust page numbers in Beamer, but not in a LaTeX document...I'm using the LaTeX template from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/latex#loc-plos-template

     – user2441511 Jun 06 '15 at 15:39
  • @AlfredoHernández Thank you! That was exactly what I needed. I wanted to pull exactly from a bbl file, so this modified command works perfectly. \newsavebox\mytempbib \savebox\mytempbib{\parbox{\textwidth}{\input{growthFromTemplate.bbl}}} – user2441511 Jun 06 '15 at 15:52

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Thanks to @AlfredoHernández for his answer. Following his suggestion, with a slight modification I found from this question, this command

\newsavebox\mytempbib
\savebox\mytempbib{\parbox{\textwidth}{\input{mainFile.bbl}}}

works perfectly.

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