Hi there,
Does anyone know if there is a way to use bibtex for citations without including a bibliography section? Specifically I ask because I have a large datatable that I need to typeset separately from the main paper and which has a list of references at the bottom. As such the document with the datatable has just the table and nothing else so having a bibliography section doesn't make sense but it would be easier (and better) if I could link the reference list to the same .bib file as the paper (where the referenced papers do appear in the bibliography).
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Using BibTeX for Citations without a Bibliography Section
I don't think this is possible, but consider the following question: Where is your table going to be published if not in the same document as your bibliography? If it's in a separate document (e.g., supplementary data for a journal, accessed online but not published in the article proper), I would put the citations from the supplementary information in the supplementary information, with its own bibliography. This makes it possible to read the supplementary data by itself, without the original article.
If, on the other hand, you simply want the table to be by itself after the bibliography, then put the bibliography command before the table environment and it should work fine.
You could do something sneaky, such as writing the supplemental document with an \include at the bottom to include the .bbl file, then post-process the PDF to remove the last page(s). This would do what you asked, indirectly. An alternative is to grab all the \cite commands from the paper and turn them into \nocite commands at the beginning of the extra paper. This, however, will not auto-update next time you change something.
If, on the other hand, you simply want the table to be by itself after the bibliography, then put the bibliography command before the table environment and it should work fine.
You could do something sneaky, such as writing the supplemental document with an \include at the bottom to include the .bbl file, then post-process the PDF to remove the last page(s). This would do what you asked, indirectly. An alternative is to grab all the \cite commands from the paper and turn them into \nocite commands at the beginning of the extra paper. This, however, will not auto-update next time you change something.