Citation in the body of the text

Question

I have tried to use bibtex and bibentry, but I didn't succeed. Does someone have an idea how I can cite the whole reference in the body of the text, repeating or not the list of references in the end?

Here is the example:

\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
    @book{example,
        author = "John",
        title = "The book's title",
        year = "2013",
        publisher = "Cambridge",
    }

\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[round]{natbib}  % bibliography package

\usepackage{bibentry}         %  full citation in the body of the text (turn off natbib if use it)

\nobibliography*                   % no bib at the end


\begin{document}

This would be the complete citation

\bibentry{example}

And this would be just the regular citation: \cite{example}


\bibliography{mybib.bib}

\bibliographystyle{apa}

\end{document}

Answer 1

There are two errors in your MWE.

1. \bibliography{mybib.bib} should be \bibliography{mybib} otherwise BibTeX looks for the file mybib.bib.bib instead of mybib.bib.
2. \bibliographystyle{apa} should be \bibliographystyle{apalike}. The bibliography style apa.bst is not compatible with bibentry.

So, delete your .aux and .bbl file, and retry with the following MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
    @book{example,
        author = "John",
        title = "The book's title",
        year = "2013",
        publisher = "Cambridge",
    }

\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[round]{natbib}  % bibliography package

\usepackage{bibentry}         %  full citation in the body of the text (turn off natbib if use it)

\nobibliography*                   % no bib at the end


\begin{document}

This would be the complete citation

\bibentry{example}

And this would be just the regular citation: \cite{example}


\bibliography{mybib}

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

\end{document} 

Output: