BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ bibtex to bibitem

[Dastard]

Hi
I have downloaded Texnic today alongwith Miktex and ghostviewer. They are working fine, mean i can create a pdf document in my required output form. I am using it to write a technical paper for a conference. Conference has provided a sample paper. However in that sample citations are written as bibitem format e.g.

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\bibitem{c9} M. Young, The Techincal Writers Handbook.  Mill Valley, CA: University Science, 1989.
\bibitem{c10} J. U. Duncombe, ÒInfrared navigationÑPart I: An assessment of feasibility (Periodical style),Ó IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-11, pp. 34Ð39, Jan. 1959.
\bibitem{c11} S. Chen, B. Mulgrew, and P. M. Grant, ÒA clustering technique for digital communications channel equalization using radial basis function networks,Ó IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 570Ð578, July 1993.

However my citations are in bib (probably it is bibtex) format, in the form of blocks, example of one block is given below

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@article{cite1,
year={1991},
issn={0340-1200},
journal={Biological Cybernetics},
volume={65},
issue={3},
doi={10.1007/BF00198091},
title={A new method of the description of the information flow in the brain structures},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00198091},
publisher={Springer-Verlag},
author={Kaminski, M.J. and Blinowska, K.J.},
pages={203-210},
language={English}
}

I am not very good with texnic and plz dont mind if i sound stupid. Is there a way that i can use .bib citation format in my paper ?
Or simply i want to use block wise structure of citations in place of bibitem

Thanks in Anticipation

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dastard,

welcome to the board!

I am not very good with texnic and plz dont mind if i sound stupid.

No problem if LaTeX is new for you and you don't know much yet. Just please don't use plz and such leetspeak here, it's a public forum, no chat or instant messaging. Some people may consider throwing "cool" shortened words as stupid, just because you mentioned it. But no problem in a first post.

Yes, you can use BibTeX to produce the bibitems. However, it requires some learning, to work with BibTeX and to choose the right style. Just my opinion: if you would have a small amount of citations, you could follow their style manually. Some minutes work, but no need to learn new tools. Of course, if you would need LaTeX and BibTeX later, it's good to learn it. In that case, find out if the conference provides a bibliography style file.

Stefan