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andrewogeen
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BibTeX listing all references in .bib file

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I am having an unusual problem. This has never happened before, but when compiling a document recently I notice that my references list contains every entry in my .bib file regardless of whether it is cited in the paper. I am not sure what is causing this to happen. I am using natbib.

Any help would be appreciated.

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gmedina
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Re: BibTeX listing all references in .bib file

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Hi,

search your code for the command \nocite{*} and comment it out or delete it.
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,...
andrewogeen
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Re: BibTeX listing all references in .bib file

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I thought that I had accidentally entered the \nocite command somewhere, but I have not. I searched the entire document and it's not there. The weird thing is that I have been working on this paper for a while and have not had this problem until just the other day. I can't think of what has changed.
craq
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Re: BibTeX listing all references in .bib file

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did you figure this out? I have the same thing, also with no \nocite command anywhere.
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Re: BibTeX listing all references in .bib file

Post by craq »

ah... I got it from \cite{*}. The asterisk was supposed to remind me to go back and put in a real reference, but it looks like it does the same as \nocite{*} in the bibliography, and I get a [0] in the text.
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