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I can use \nocite to add to the references without citing in the paper. But I would like the opposite. I want to cite in the paper without adding to the references. That is, I would like to use by .bib file to generate the correct authors and year citation, but omit the full citation from the references section.

I know that this is bad form, but for a short assignment, this would allow me to mention the references without providing the whole bibliography and meet a page limit.

Edit: I am using BibTeX.

lockstep
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Richard Herron
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    Why don't you just generate the bibliography at the very end of the document, starting on a new page? That way, you get all the benefits of having a "real" bibliography -- e.g., you can check if the references you're generating are actually the correct ones -- and still have the option of leaving off the last few pages when it comes to distribute the document... – Mico Feb 28 '12 at 02:50
  • @Mico -- Brilliant! I wanted to have one reference for the subject paper (I am a PhD student writing paper summaries for a seminar), but I can leave that off. Your solution is much more practical and lets me get full citations later. Thanks! Should I close this question? – Richard Herron Feb 28 '12 at 02:59
  • Are you using biblatex? – Werner Feb 28 '12 at 03:07
  • @Werner -- No, bibtex. In the near term I won't have the time/energy to switch, but should I add that to my todo list? Other than this odd request I have been very happy with the bibtex feature set. – Richard Herron Feb 28 '12 at 03:20
  • If you want to omit all entires, bibtex is fine, but if someday you only want to omit some of them, then biblatex is the best option because you can define custom filters for this. – ienissei Feb 28 '12 at 08:41

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If you want to omit all references, you can use \nobibliography.

\usepackage{bibentry}
...
\nobibliography{your_bib_filename}
...
Chang
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  • Where can I find bibentry? I can't find it in the TexLive package manager on a Win 7 install. Thanks! – Richard Herron Feb 28 '12 at 09:29
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    Download bibentry.ins and bibentry.dtx and then compile latex bibentry.ins. This produces bibentry.sty that you can then use. As mentioned here (under Getting It), it is not available under MiKTeX nor TeX Live. – Werner Feb 28 '12 at 14:57
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    @Werner -- Thanks for two good lessons on thinking outside the box! – Richard Herron Feb 28 '12 at 18:50
  • I see that the \nobibliography can be used to keep the citation from appearing in the bibliography; but how can one simultaneously get an inline bibliographic entry that would typically appear with \bibentry? That is, with \nobibliography{}, the \bibentry output is likewise null. I'm looking for inline text of a bibliographic entry, without a place in the actual bibliography. – Steven B. Segletes Aug 25 '14 at 17:46
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A far inferior, yet still viable alternative, would be to construct and compile your document as usual. Then, comment out \bibliography{<bib-file>} before the last compilation. This will still read the correct citation details from the auxiliary files at the start of the last compile and therefore not complain about undefined references while also not setting the actual bibliography. It may work as a quick-fix in terms of your needs.

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