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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nocite*</title>
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<h3>Listing all your BibTeX entries</h3>
<p/>LaTeX and BibTeX co-operate to offer special treatment of this
requirement.  The command <code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> is specially treated,
and causes BibTeX to generate bibliography entries for every entry
in each <code>.bib</code> file listed in your <code>\</code><code>bibliography</code> statement, so
that after a LaTeX&ndash;BibTeX&ndash;LaTeX sequence, you have a
document with the whole thing listed.
<p/>Note that LaTeX <em>doesn&rsquo;t</em> produce

&ldquo;<code>Citation ... undefined</code>&rdquo; or
&ldquo;<code>There were undefined references</code>&rdquo; warnings in respect of
<code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code>.  This isn&rsquo;t a problem if you&rsquo;re running
LaTeX &ldquo;by hand&rdquo; (you <em>know</em> exactly how many times you have
to run things), but the lack might confuse automatic processors that
scan the log file to determine whether another run is necessary.
<p/>A couple of packages are available, that aim to reduce the impact of
<code>\</code><code>nocite{*}</code> of a large citation database.  <i>Biblist</i>
was written for use under LaTeX 2.09, but seems to work well enough;
<i>listbib</i> is more modern.  Both provide their own
<code>.bst</code> files.  (The impact of large databases was significant
in the old days of LaTeX systems with very little free memory; this
problem is less significant now than it once was.)
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<dt><tt><i>biblist.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/biblist.zip">macros/latex209/contrib/biblist</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/biblist/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>listbib.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listbib.zip">macros/latex/contrib/listbib</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listbib/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nocite*</a>
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