BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Ensuring only cited references appear in references list

[eoa]

Hi all

I was wondering: is there any way, using BibTeX, or any other bibliography tool, to ensure that only cited references appear in your reference list? As in, there are a whole lot of references in your bibliography file ("references.bib", or whatever), but you only want the references you cite (with \cite) to appear in your references section of your document (created by \bibliography{references}).

After performing a search for my problem ("cited references appear in references list" and just "cited references") in this thread (BiBTeX), the only result which was remotely similar was http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =50&t=8596, but that OP was asking for a way to make references appear as footnotes when cited. Not exactly my problem.

Finally, I'm not sure how useful a MWE would be in this case, because I'm not really having an error per se, just a question as to whether something can be done, and how.

PS: I note that this may be in the wrong place, but I found no general forum thread for "References".

[gmedina]

Hi,

I was wondering: is there any way, using BibTeX, or any other bibliography tool, to ensure that only cited references appear in your reference list? As in, there are a whole lot of references in your bibliography file ("references.bib", or whatever), but you only want the references you cite (with \cite) to appear in your references section of your document (created by \bibliography{references})...

That's exactly the default behaviour.

[eoa]

You're completely right. My silly mistake. Did not realise that after removing a \nocite{*} command (which I used previously) that I forgot to do: LaTeX compile -> BiBTeX compile -> LaTeX compile to reflect the changes.

Sorry for the waste of forum space,heh...

Thanks

[localghost]

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Thorsten