Index of research papers with ready bibitems

Question

I have a URL of a paper in pdf. Is there a place that I can obtain ready \bibitem for this paper? I don't want to include neither only the URL of the paper nor list of all authors, dates, etc. myself.

EDIT: Having read the comments and following advise on how to use biblatex from here I have create the following structure (which still does not produce the bibliography correctly):

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% everything that this documentclass requires
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http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/software/latex/files/dcsbook.cls
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/software/latex/files/dcslib.sty

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% thesis.tex
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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english,thesis]{dcsbook}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{float}

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references}

\begin{document}
\raggedbottom

\author{YYY}
\title{XXX}
\supervisor{ZZZ}
\date{Poznań, 2014}
\maketitle
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents{}
\mainmatter

\chapter{Introduction}

aa \cite{StoicaChord}  bbbb

\backmatter

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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% references.bib
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@article{StoicaChord,
        Author = {Ion Stoica and Robert Morris and David Liben{-}Nowell and David R. Karger and M. Frans Kaashoek and Frank Dabek and Hari Balakrishnan},
        Bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org},
        Biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/journals/ton/StoicaMLKKDB03},
        Date-Modified = {2014-10-15 01:28:44 +0000},
        Doi = {10.1109/TNET.2002.808407},
        Journal = {{IEEE/ACM} Trans. Netw.},
        Number = {1},
        Pages = {17--32},
        Timestamp = {Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:53:37 +0200},
        Title = {Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications},
        Url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2002.808407},
        Volume = {11},
        Year = {2003},
        Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2002.808407}}

The .tex files complies itself to pdf, but the bibliography is not present in the output. The reference to the only one bibliography item, instead of being rendered as a number, this is [1], is rendered as follows: [StoicaChord].

Google scholar would be an option. For computer science you can use DBLP http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/ . You will get the bib record. — Guido, Oct 14 '14 at 23:45
Standard practice is to maintain a database of the publications that you cite and then use bibtex/biblatex/biber/... to create your bibliographies. See bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib for details. — , Oct 14 '14 at 23:57
Guido - thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. Andrew - I starting playing with that by creating a .bib file with list of @articles. I have come across one problem, I have used so far normal bibitems like this: \bibitem{python}\emph{https://www.python.org/}. Now, when I want to include items both old way (because not every item is a paper) and the more verbose ones, I am getting conflicts. Is there any common way to handle that? — koleS, Oct 15 '14 at 00:09
If you are writing a .bib file, you should never type \bibitem at all. (I have never used \bibitem in a document of my own.) You also don't (generally) want formatting such as \emph in there. At least, it should be a last resort. — cfr, Oct 15 '14 at 00:32
@cfr I see, then I will move all \bibitems to the .bib file. At the moment my bibliography structure is as follows: \begin{thebibliography}{1} % peer-to-peer \bibitem{}\emph{http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/ton:chord/paper-ton.pdf} % twisted purpose \bibitem{twisted}\emph{https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/}
\end{thebibliography}

and if I understand correctly, now I only have to include these: \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{<my_bib_file1>, <my_bib_file2>}, where these files include definitions of @article/@misc and I am ready to go. Is that correct? — koleS, Oct 15 '14 at 00:44
It depends. Are you using bibtex or biblatex? For bibtex, that's right. For biblatex, that's wrong. The bit about the .bib entries replacing the need for \bibitem is correct either way. Just \bibliographystyle is bibtex only. — cfr, Oct 15 '14 at 00:51
@cfr - I am using biblatex. I deleted the line with \bibliographystyle and at least the .tex file compiles, but bibliography does not work properly. I am not sure if I still have to define \thebibliography{1} or not. This is how I am trying to do it: http://pastebin.com/8Xe3apEv. Any idea what could be wrong? — koleS, Oct 15 '14 at 01:03
Did you load the biblatex package? No. You don't define \thebibliography. Please help us to help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — cfr, Oct 15 '14 at 01:06
@cfr - I provided an example, please see my post. DocumentClass specified in the example comes from here: http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/software/latex/files/dcsbook.cls — koleS, Oct 15 '14 at 01:13
Please edit your question to include your MWE here. Otherwise, your question only has meaning or value for future users until your pastebin expires. — cfr, Oct 15 '14 at 01:28
@cfr You're right, thanks for hints. I've updated the question. Do you have any idea how to solve it? — koleS, Oct 15 '14 at 02:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '14 at 06:37

First, you should move your bibliography to its own file with the extension bib. E.i references.bib, but in the same folder. Second, in biblatex (opposite bibtex) you need to add the file extension to your reference. The correct way to include the file is

\addbibresource{references.bib}

Index of research papers with ready bibitems

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