Using BibTeX/biblatex to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document?

Question

Is there any way to have BibTeX or biblatex insert a bibliography without having citations in the body of the document itself? Maybe a way to hide the in-text citations, so that BibTeX still sees them and includes them in the bibliography, but does not print them in the body?

Answer 1

Use \nocite{*} in the body of your document to include all the references in the .bib database. To include only some bibliographical entries, you can use \nocite{key1,key2,...,keyn} to include only the entries corresponding to key1,key2,...,keyn.

Answer 2

Using the apacite package, the following code works for me:

\usepackage{url} % Link bibliography links (avoid long links for clarity)
\usepackage{breakurl} % Break URLs over multiple lines
\usepackage{hyperref} % Link bibliography links (avoid long links for clarity)
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\begin{document} 
    \bibliography{ref/lib} % References a "lib.bib" file inside of the "ref" folder
    \bibliographystyle{apacite}
    \nocite{*}
\end{document}