Multiple bibliographies working even if I use \nocite{*}

Question

I have a huge latex project, which is divided in multiple parts. I want to have a .bib for each part and then display the references in this file in the end of the respective part.

I searched here for a solution but I didn't found any that worked in this way. Usually people have one single .bib file, and then do a bibliography after each part which contains all the stuff cited in the respective part. This doesn't work for me as I rarely cite stuff in the text.

I also don't want a global bibliography, so the labels can restart between parts.

Add a field value to the fieldset keyword at each entry, e.g. keywords = {parti}, keywords = {partii} etc. and then wherever you want to print bibliography, just use a filter: \printbibliography[keyword=parti, title={References from Part I}]. Since you don't reference anything in text, you probably have to use \nocite{*} before each execution of printbibliography[...] and may also need to add the option: heading=subbibliography. — Celdor, Feb 04 '22 at 18:45

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '22 at 08:12

You can use refsections to create separate bibliographies per part of your document. With the optional argument of \begin{refsection}...\end{refsection} you can fix one specific .bib file for that refsection. Then \nocite{*} will only use entries from that .bib file.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname-one.bib}
@book{elk,
  author    = {Anne Elk},
  title     = {A Theory on Brontosauruses},
  year      = {1972},
  publisher = {Monthy &amp; Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname-one.bib}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname-two.bib}
@book{belk,
  author    = {Anne Belk},
  title     = {A Theory on Diplodocuses},
  year      = {1980},
  publisher = {Monthy &amp; Co.},
  location  = {London},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname-two.bib}
\begin{document}
\begin{refsection}[\jobname-one]
\part{One}
Lorem
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{refsection}
\begin{refsection}[\jobname-two]
\part{Two}
Ipsum
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{refsection}
\end{document}

If you don't want to use refsections because completely separate bibliographies are not desirable, you can look into solutions with keywords based on file names like biblatex: multiple bibliographies categorised by different .bib files and Separate multiple bib files reference using biblatex.

Multiple bibliographies working even if I use \nocite{*}

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