Micro bibliography inside LaTeX file without filecontents

Question

How to make nice "micro" (with just a few entires) bibliography inside LaTeX file ?

Requirement:

• not using filecontents
• only running pdflatex file.tex (might be multiple of times)

I know it's quite limiting (that's why I have problem...), but on the other hand, curious, how to add just a few entries "manually".

I can handle even manually with numbering of references and their layout, so question could be : how to layout manually to achieve same effect as with BibTex or BibLatex ? But maybe there is some middle ground between doing whole stuff totally manually, and using additional external tools with additional runs.

Answer 1

Solution found in : http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28764/7128

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Some text \cite{key01}.

\begin{thebibliography}{9}% 2nd arg is the width of the widest label.
\bibitem{key01}
Beeblebrox, Zaphod, Galactic University Press
etc. etc.`
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}