How not to generate References with \bibliography?

Question

This is a follow-up to

How to cite one bibentry in full length in the body text?

The \bibliography command does two things: names the bibliography file and generates the References section.

Can I achieve somehow that I would only name the bibliography file but wouldn't generate the References section? I want to generate the references in-text as the mentioned question describes.

Answer 1

If you don't need a real bibliography, drop the \bibliography{<my bibfile>} and use \nobibliography{<my bibfile>} (at the beginning of the document body - or at least before the first \bibentry) instead.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\begin{document}
\nobibliography{xampl}
A full in-text cite of \bibentry{article-full}.
\end{document}

The example in https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49051/35864 uses \nobibliography* since it actually prints a normal bibliography with \bibliography{<my bibfile>}.