BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibtex in same file

[daviddoria]

I know you can do:

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\begin{thebibliography}{9}
 
\bibitem{test}
  Leslie Lamport,
  \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System}.
  Addison Wesley, Massachusetts,
  2nd Edition,
  1994.
 \end{thebibliography}

if you just have a few references and don't want to make a separate .bib file, but is there anyway to do it in more of this style:

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@ARTICLE{supercurves,
    AUTHOR={Minghui Xia},
    TITLE={Image Registration by "Super-Curves"},
    JOURNAL={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
    YEAR={1985},
	VOLUME = {13},
    PAGES={720},
}

where it takes care of the formatting, etc, for you (like it does when you use a separate bib file)?

Thanks,

Dave

[frabjous]

You could use bibtex, but put the .bib file inside the .tex file with the filecontents environment. (Either put it at the very beginning of the file, or else use the filecontents package.)

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\begin{filecontents}{shortbib.bib}
@ARTICLE{supercurves,
    AUTHOR={Minghui Xia},
    TITLE={Image Registration by "Super-Curves"},
    JOURNAL={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
    YEAR={1985},
   VOLUME = {13},
    PAGES={720},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\title{A Silly Article}
\author{Me}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
My favorite article is \cite{supercurves}.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{shortbib}
\end{document}

[josephwright]

In addition to the above suggestion, you could look at amsrefs.

[daviddoria]

Awesome - that works, thanks. However, I get a warning:

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File `shortbib.bib' already exists on the system.

Is there a way to suppress it? Or should I just ignore it?

Dave

[localghost]

In the solution of frabjous there's a catch which manifests in the warning you get. As long as the *.bib file already exists, modifications in the filecontents environment will have no effect. The *.bib file will not be overwritten. For example, if you decide to add an entry for the database inside the filecontents environment, this will not be added to the written file.


Best regards
Thorsten

[frabjous]

You can of course manually delete the .bib file, and then your changes will take effect...

[localghost]

The filecontents package eliminates the limitation I described in my last reply.

[daviddoria]

Excellent - thanks all!