BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Automatic Ordering of Bibliography Items

[MrH86A]

I have a list of \bibitem at the end my document in the bibliography section. Is there a command that can automatically list the bibitems at end of the compiled PDF in order of where they appeared in the text? In other words, to enumerate the references in the PDF in the order they appeared in the body and not in the order they are listed in the bibliography section of the .tex file.

I understand that this is where bibtex has the advantage but I have a large list of references and it would take a very long time to create the bibtex or to reorder them manually.


Thanks in advance!