AG If you want citations to work, but you don't want your bibliography to show up, try the following: latex file.texbibtex file comment out \biblography{} line latex file.tex If you latex again, it will screw up. To make an independent bibliography, remove all text and replace all citep/citet/cite commands with \nocite{} in a different document. Remember to usepackage{natbib} etc. You may have to copy over the .bbl file.