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I am writing a document that in a way consists of many different papers. People reading the document may be interested only in a small aspect of it. I want to make it easier to read for different people by breaking up the bibliography after each section.

"How can I create bibliographies after each section?" and its Helper questions

  1. How can I show bibliographies after each section or a specific point related to the earlier section?

  2. How does your method work if some references are common between the sections?

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    Have you looked into the chapterbib package? – Mico Feb 01 '15 at 01:47
  • @Mico Thank you for the information. I have never heard about it. I will wait to see other choices. Or are there other choices and their pros and cons? – hhh Feb 01 '15 at 01:55
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    The biblatex package also allows for this with a great deal of flexibility. – jon Feb 01 '15 at 02:08
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    I'm currently doing precisely this with biblatex and biber. It is much more automatic than chapterbib and bibtex. (You don't have to run the backend once per bibliography - you just run it on the main file as usual.) – cfr Feb 01 '15 at 02:14
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    Same opinion as @cfr: biblatex defines the refsection and refsegment environment. You also can print bibliography organised by categories. – Bernard Feb 01 '15 at 02:26
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    The answer to your second question (which you call your first) is that it depends... It depends how you configure it, which options you choose... The way I do it, a reference which occurs in multiple reference sections will be listed in the list of references in each of those sections. But you can use categories, as Bernard says, or other means of filtering, if that's what you want. – cfr Feb 01 '15 at 02:30
  • @cfr is it possible to provide a SWE? I am currently using biber so particularly interested in your alternative. – hhh Mar 13 '15 at 12:07
  • @hhh Can you provide an MWE with your current biblatex set-up, some demo .bib entries and a couple of chapters/sections or whatever? Also, can you say how you want to handle the case of a reference in multiple chapters/sections? It's really hard to provide a useful MWE in the answer when there isn't one in the question! – cfr Mar 13 '15 at 13:00
  • @cfr I posted a picture in this question here, I try to get my LaTex working directory beautified to ArXiv so it could be easier to work on this -- taking some time. I am not yet sure what is the best way to work with document compiled with LaTex: I use a lot of directories to keep order and one main LaTex file that sources relevant documents. – hhh Mar 15 '15 at 19:44
  • An MWE. Not a picture. – cfr Mar 15 '15 at 19:45
  • @cfr https://www.dropbox.com/s/g62kq6xih5c4iod/20150315_Test_Biber_many_references.zip?dl=0 where I created 3 separate bib files and after each section I want the references related to them printed, I have apparently this biber prob re-emerging -- can you get it compiled in your comp? – hhh Mar 15 '15 at 20:10
  • @cfr pastebin version about the MWE here where a.bib, b.bib, c.bib and test.txt stdouted. – hhh Mar 15 '15 at 20:15
  • How to create a minimal working example (MWE). How to create a minimum working example with bibliography (MWEB). It isn't generally useful to post stuff elsewhere as your question will not help future users if the links disappear or the contents changes. In any case, creating a suitable example usually helps you to diagnose (sometimes even solve) the problem yourself. – cfr Mar 15 '15 at 22:14
  • Alternatively, you could just search the site - there are questions about this already. (Some are listed on the right.) – cfr Mar 15 '15 at 22:15

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I don't want that the comments disappear so summarising the Biber solution so far here, hopefully someone can clarify this with SWE so easy to use this method.

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Cfr mentioned

I'm currently doing precisely this with biblatex and biber. It is much more automatic than chapterbib and bibtex. (You don't have to run the backend once per bibliography - you just run it on the main file as usual.)

while Bernard mentioned

Same opinion as @cfr: biblatex defines the refsection and refsegment environment. You also can print bibliography organised by categories.

so there looks to be some easy solution with Biber.

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