BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ .bib files and submitting to journals

[melekzedek]

Dear fellows Texnicians.

I want to know if there is some way to automatically extract the cited references from a bib file and put them at the end of a tex file.

The problem is that, whenever I'm writing an article, I put manually all the references at the end of the tex file, since the journals don't accept bib files. If there is some way to automatically copy only the cited references to the end of the tex file would be splendid.

Any idea?

[olofos]

Do you want the bibtex datase entries, or formatted references? In the latter case, I would normally just include the .bbl file you get when running bibtex. This contains everything you need to typeset the paper (as long as you don't change any references/don't run bibtex again). I don't know of any direct way of extracting the relevant entries from the bib file. I think I've done something like that using auctex/reftex though.

[melekzedek]

Thanks olofos for the tip of including the .bbl file with the tex file. It resolves my problem. Thanks