I’m gonna go all nerdy here and write this up, mostly for my own benefit for the next time I have to do this to write an article for a journal. I don’t expect anybody to read it. However, some quick background just in case you’re crazy and want to read something dull. Anybody whose actually an expert in this type of stuff will tell me I have it all wrong and that what I’m doing is ridiculously simple, but I’m just explaining it as I understand it.
LaTeX is basically a programming language to do word processing things better than Word. There is a highly convenient thing (program? language?) that goes along with it to manage references, called BibTeX, which arranges and formats your references however you tell it without you having to type everything out and change numbering (think how Endnote should work but never does). However, for the article I’m writing, I can’t just tell BibTeX to take care of everything because the publishing company wants all the references in the thebibliography environment typed out. So, I am on a quest to find the easy way to do this without actually doing any work.
Write paper as usual, with usual citations where necessary.
Make database in JabRef as usual
Include bibliography and style files at end of document as usual. Turn on BibTex as usual.
Compile document and make sure references are showing up as desired.
Open name.bbl file and copy and paste the contents to the end of the .tex file
Delete the include bibliography and style commands from the .tex file
Turn off BibTex.
Compile again. References should be good.
If any changes to reference order are made, or new ones added, go through entire process again.
That seems to work, and it’s much less complicated than typing everything out.
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