Page Layout ⇒ Omit citation in bibliography, but refer to it in the text?

[arwintcher]

I'm using the Harvard reference style (an author-date variation). Under the rules of this style, if you read about something you wish to refer to, but haven't read the original text itself, you are supposed to leave the original text out of the bibliography. For instance, if I cite a translated quote from an older or out-of-print work, I would say something like "Buddha (1998, cited in Frederick 2001) claims that blah blah blah...". In the bibliography, Buddha 1998 should not be listed.

Is there any way to cite something in the text and tell LaTex to format the citation in the body of the work, but not put it in the bibliography?

[gmedina]

Hi,

process your document in the following way

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(pdf)latex myfile
(pdf)latex myfile
bibtex myfile

Now, in an editor, open the file myfile.bbl (that resides in the same folder containing myfile.tex) and delete the entry corresponding to the item you don't want to appear in the bibliography. Save the changes to myfile.bbl and finally, run

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(pdf)latex myfile

make sure not to run BiBTeX this last time.

[localghost]

I wonder about the sense in that. Just write »Buddha (1998, cited in Frederick 2001)« in your text.


Best regards
Thorsten

[arwintcher]

Yeah, it's just that having all those references highlighted in the text editor was helping me keep things organized in my head as I write. I'll probably just end up doing what localghost suggests.