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The journal I am submitting to prefers a list of bibitems over a .bib file. In trying to make this conversion, I used the suggestions from this SE question and this blog post.

Running pdflatex, bibtex on the MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=nature]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
\begin{document}
Theory of superconductivity~\cite{bardeen1957}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

with bibliography.bib:

@article{bardeen1957,
    title       = {Theory of superconductivity},
    author      = {Bardeen, John and Cooper, Leon N and Schrieffer, J Robert},
    journal     = {Physical Review},
    volume      = {108},
    number      = {5},
    pages       = {1175},
    year        = {1957},
    publisher   = {APS}
}

should result in a .bbl file with the bibitems in the form

\bibitem{bardeen1957}
Bardeen, J.
\newblock Theory of superconductivity.
\newblock {\em Physical Review}{\bf 108}
\newblock 1175 (1975)

Instead, I get in the file mwe.bbl:

\entry{bardeen1957}{article}{}
  \name{author}{3}{}{%
    {{}%
     {Bardeen}{B.}%
     {John}{J.}%
     {}{}%
     {}{}}%
    {{}%
     {Cooper}{C.}%
     {Leon~N}{L.~N.}%
     {}{}%
     {}{}}%
    {{}%
     {Schrieffer}{S.}%
     {J~Robert}{J.~R.}%
     {}{}%
     {}{}}%
  }
  \list{publisher}{1}{%
    {APS}%
  }
  \strng{namehash}{BJ+1}
  \strng{fullhash}{BJCLNSJR1}
  \field{number}{5}
  \field{pages}{1175}
  \field{title}{Theory of superconductivity}
  \field{volume}{108}
  \field{journaltitle}{Physical Review}
  \field{year}{1957}
\endentry

What am I doing wrong, and how do I get the preferred \bibitem{} form of entries?

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    try to replace \printbibliography with \bibliography{bibliography} \bibliographystyle{plain} and don't use \usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=nature]{biblatex} \addbibresource{bibliography.bib} – touhami Nov 21 '16 at 19:08
  • \documentclass{article} \bibliography{bibliography} \bibliographystyle{plain} \begin{document} Theory of superconductivity~\cite{bardeen1957}. \end{document}

    gives Missing 'biblatex' package. {}, independent of whether I put the commands in the preamble or body. Including the biblatex line gives the error Package biblatex Error: '\bibliographystyle' invalid. \bibliographystyle{plain} when including the style line, and the old result from the question without it.

     – Betohaku Nov 21 '16 at 20:01
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    after you remove the \usepackage[...]{biblatex} you need to delete your .aux file(s), because they still contain the now-irrelevant links. – barbara beeton Nov 21 '16 at 20:29
  • Done, still gives the old \entry{bardeen1957}{article}{} etc – Betohaku Nov 21 '16 at 20:38
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    no you only get \entry... using biblatex if you have removed that (and re-run pdflatex and bibtex) then they will be gone – David Carlisle Nov 21 '16 at 22:20
  • Ah yes, it does. Not sure what I did wrong first, but this code works: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \cite{bardeen1957}. \bibliography{bibliography} \bibliographystyle{plain} \end{document} – Betohaku Nov 21 '16 at 23:06
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is solved by comments. – Mensch Aug 10 '17 at 20:46
  • "Thanks" for closing this instead of just allowing a commenter to answer. Had to hunt down here to find a solution – wicked! How is a question off-topic if it's being solved? That makes all questions on this site off-topic! You guys amaze me sometimes. – vauhochzett Feb 10 '21 at 13:14

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