General ⇒ How can I insert a complete reference into text using BibTeX

[craigim]

When writing a scientific paper, if you cite another paper in the abstract, most journals require you to put in the full citation rather than just an endnote. Is there a package, or some hidden BibTeX command, where I can insert the reference from my database rather than having to enter format it explicitly?

I looked at natbib, but from what I can tell, that would only let me insert the author and year into the text, while I need the full reference.

[countbela666]

Hi,

the bibentry package provides exactly the functionality you want to have. As this readme implies, it should be part of the natbib package.

Regards
Marcel

[craigim]

Thanks, that was (almost) exactly what I was looking for.

The only thing that's bugging me now is that I'd also like to use it for the Vitae section of my thesis, but it insists on inserting the entries into the bibliography as well, which isn't allowed by the thesis guidelines. The documentation is pretty thin, and it doesn't appear that the author keeps a web page or provides an email address for feedback. Who knows, maybe he'll read this.