I have a large number of preformatted citations that I would like to insert into my bibliography. I also have some citations in the biblatex database format. How would I go about using these preformatted citations and the biblatex citations so that when I call \printbibliography
, both types are mixed together in alphabetical order?
1 Answer
biblatex
and BibTeX are incompatible with 'prefomatted citations'/\bibitem
. That is because they need to take over full control over the bibliography and how entries are presented there.
You should try and move your already preformatted citations to a .bib
file, this will be much more convenient for you in the long run. You will be able to use the citations together with different styles and sorting can be taken care of by Biber/BibTeX.
It might be tedious to do this 'by hand', so you could try the text2bib tool (http://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/). Depending on the format of your input (your preformatted data) the output can be very good. You should check the resulting .bib
file thoroughly manually, though.
Another way, and not recommended here, is to 'fake' entries in the bibliography and stuff all the text of one preformatted citation into one field. The notes2bib
package can already do this, but if you need more than the package provides, you may have to steal its idea and expand on it.
thebibiography
that you want to insert into your 'normal'biblatex
bibliography? You can't currently do that sincethebibliography
andbiblatex
are fundamentally incompatible. What is the use case you are thinking about?.bib
). @moewe ?.bib
file. It might require some manual tweaking, but should be able to convert your 'preformatted' entries to a.bib
file. As I said there is no way you can somehow 'fuse' your preformatted entries andbiblatex
's\printbibliography
into one.