BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Import of Bibliography Content into Source File

[mf14]

Hi,

I submitted a paper and it is accepted but it should have some modifications. For example, I used a ".bib" file as my bibliography database. The reviewer said this.

Executable LaTeX files requiring BibTeX and other additional files cannot be processed

So we should move bibliography to ".tex" file. But if we use such codes

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\begin{thebibliography}{widest-label}
  \bibitem[label]{cite_key}
  ...
\end{thebibliography}

I have about 70 references (bibliography items) and it is very time consuming to change all of them form ".bib" format to such format. For example, I should change

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@article{marvel99,
  author = {L.M. Marvel AND  C.G. Boncelet and C.T. Retter },
  title = {Spread spectrum image steganography},
  journal = {IEEE Trans. on Image Processing},
  year = { 1999},
  volume = { 8},
  number = { 8},
  pages = { 1075 - 1083 },
  month = { Aug},
}

to

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\bibitem{marvel99}{author=L.M. Marvel AND  C.G. Boncelet and C.T. Retter}, ...

I want only copy & paste the bibliography and just a bit changes or adding some codes.

Note that I used \begin{filecontents}{bibfile.bib} but I think it may be forbidden since although it is not need to a bib file but it creates a bib file.


Thanks so much.

[localghost]

Process your bibliography as usual, open the bibliography file (*.bbl) and copy its complete content to your source file. Lets consider a small example for better explanation.

The source file could look like this. Note that it generates a small bibliography database with the exemplary entry that you presented.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{marvel99,
  author = {L.M. Marvel AND  C.G. Boncelet and C.T. Retter},
  title = {Spread spectrum image steganography},
  journal = {IEEE Trans. on Image Processing},
  year = {1999},
  volume = {8},
  number = {8},
  pages = {1075--1083},
  month = {Aug},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\bibliographystyle{plain}

\begin{document}
  \nocite{*}
  \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

If you now process this as usual, you get a bibliography file (*.bbl) with this content.

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\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{marvel99}
L.M. Marvel, C.G. Boncelet, and C.T. Retter.
\newblock Spread spectrum image steganography.
\newblock {\em IEEE Trans. on Image Processing}, 8(8):1075 -- 1083, Aug 1999.

\end{thebibliography}

As you can see, this is a complete {thebibliography} environment with its content in form if bibliography items. The final formatting depends on the used bibliography style. But this should also work for your use case.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[mf14]

Thank you for helping me. I do as you said. It is perfect but just a question is ramain:
Order of references is not same as before I use this technique. My order for numbering references is based on the occur in the text but now it is not so.
How we can set it to appear references based on the appearance on the text?

[localghost]

Hard to diagnose from here without seeing a concrete example.