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I need to submit my TeX file to journal but they request

Do not include a separate .bib file or .bbl file with your submission

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please run BibTeX before submitting your paper, and include (read-in) the resulting .bbl file within the reference section of your paper

If I upload a TeX file but not the .pdf file including the .bib results. How should I merge my .bib file with my TeX file ?

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    Welcome to TeX.sx!. You might start by checking the folder of your compiled TeX file to find a file with the .bbl extension. That is your processed .bib file. Then you can include the contents of that file in your bibliography and citations will work. I would really consider issuing a complaint to the journal as this is a ridiculous requirement. – percusse Oct 22 '12 at 13:24
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    See Herbert's answer to essentially the same question. – Andrew Swann Oct 22 '12 at 13:26
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    @percusse They just want a single document. Just substituting the \bibliographystyle-\bibliography pair with the contents of the .bbl file is what's needed. – egreg Oct 22 '12 at 13:28
  • @AndrewSwann That is good if biblatex is used. For "old style" bibliography with BibTeX that's meaningless. – egreg Oct 22 '12 at 13:29
  • @egreg The question is tagged as biblatex so I assume that is what is being used. The publisher is probably giving instructions based on an author using standard bibtex instead. – Andrew Swann Oct 22 '12 at 13:30
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    @AndrewSwann Oh, I see the point. Now it's kerr's turn to be more precise about this. – egreg Oct 22 '12 at 13:33
  • @egreg Yes that's what I meant but I guess bibliography word made it confusing. I mean to the point in your TeX file. Sorry about that. – percusse Oct 22 '12 at 13:36
  • @percusse -- this may seem a ridiculous requirement, but if you are at all familiar with publishers' journal production systems, you would see why it's requested. even the most robust automatic systems break down, and "additional" files can be lost. that would result in delay in publication, with the publisher having to go back to the author to get another copy. that, in turn, is not advantageous for the author, who is not only inconvenienced, but may him/herself have mislaid the required file, resulting in even more delay. think insurance. – barbara beeton Oct 22 '12 at 14:05
  • this question specifically mentions bibtex, so biblatex is not an appropriate tag. note also that some publishers are not able to handle reference lists prepared with biblatex, though some other formats may be possible in some cases (e.g. amsrefs). – barbara beeton Oct 22 '12 at 14:11
  • @barbarabeeton I can relate to that but that's not the author's concern, not even the slightest bit if you consider how much is charged for a mediocre quality. I have to disappoint you that I couldn't care less. I have to demand some quality after all (note that I think of IEEE constantly while I'm typing. I don't know how it is in the math circles but I can safely say that in engineering domain it's substandard) Besides that a publisher can not loose my files. I can't accept that while everything else is handled automatically. They never loose my extra page charges. Why my bib file? – percusse Oct 22 '12 at 14:19
  • @barbarabeeton Also my files are handled automatically so I would really get suspicious if they don't loose my article TeX file but only the bib file. At its best, it's a bad logistics design. I have to conclude that if a publisher is losing files it's their incompetence. – percusse Oct 22 '12 at 14:22
  • @percusse -- incompetence it might be, but files are processed here over a network, and a network crash early last friday morning left everything out of the water until about noon today. at the very least, someone submitting multiple files should bundle them as a zip or tar file, but you'd be surprised how many authors don't know how, or how often not all necessary files are sent. the math society doesn't have page charges (hasn't for many years); we try to run a tight, efficient ship, but we need the authors' help too. – barbara beeton Oct 22 '12 at 18:43

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As long as bibtex is used, you should be able to copy the contents of the .bbl file directly into the content of your paper in the appropriate spot. If you're using biblatex, see Herbert's answer here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/12185/18628 for a workaround.

Additionally, if you're using biblatex, you should note, as Joseph Wright points out here, that:

"[...] you cannot be sure of the package or engine availability on journal systems."

The implication is that while the biblatex workaround mentioned by Herbert will work in some cases, it isn't an ideal substitute for bibtex in journals with this requirement.

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latexpand

(with TexLive distributed)

You can try

$ latexpand --expand-bbl mytexfile.bbl mytexfile.tex
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