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I have a manuscript in which has the following structure:

Main Text

Bibliography

Appendix

However, there are citations which are only cited in the appendix, and they show up in the main bibliography. I would like to split my Bibliography into two different sections, so that the structure of the paper would look like this:

Main Text

Bibliography for Main Text

Appendix

Bibliography for Appendix

I'm currently using bibtex and a single .bib file, and creating the bibliography with

bibliographystyle {someBibStyleFile}

bibliography {bibFileName}

I'm interested in a method to split my single bibliography into main bibliography and appendix bibliography with minimal changes to the rest of the document.
I'm aware that biblatex is more powerful than bibtex, but I'm not prepared to make the switch before the deadline of this project. There are many related bibliography-with-multiple-sections type of questions, but I didn't see one that covers this case.

Here's a solution with the biblatex package. The following shows how to do it. Make sure you run bibtex on all auxiliary files, all *[0-9]-blx.aux files.

documentclass{article}



usepackage{filecontents}

usepackage{biblatex}



begin{filecontents}{myrefs.bib}

@Book{Knuth:1990,

    author    = {Knuth, Donald E.},

    title     = {The {TeX}book},

    year      = {1990},

    isbn      = {0-201-13447-0},

    publisher = {Addison,textendash,Wesley},

}



@Book{Lamport:94,

    author    = {Lamport, Leslie},

    title     = {LaTeX: A Document Preparation System},

    year      = {1994},

    isbn      = {0-021-52983-1},

    publisher = {Addison,textendash,Wesley},

}

end{filecontents}



addbibresource{myrefs.bib}

begin{document}



section{First}

    {LaTeX} is aTuring-complete

    (procedural) markup language and

    typesetting processor~parencite{Lamport:94}.





printbibliography

appendix

section{Second}

begin{refsection}

   The ultimate reference of {TeX} is~parencite{Knuth:1990}.

printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]

end{refsection}



end{document}

with multibibyou can define more than one bib.

RequirePackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents}{myrefs.bib}

@Book{Knuth:1990,

    author    = {Knuth, Donald E.},

    title     = {The {TeX}book},

    year      = {1990},

    isbn      = {0-201-13447-0},

    publisher = {Addison,textendash,Wesley},

}



@Book{Lamport:94,

    author    = {Lamport, Leslie},

    title     = {{LaTeX}: A Document Preparation System},

    year      = {1994},

    isbn      = {0-021-52983-1},

    publisher = {Addison,textendash,Wesley},

}

end{filecontents}



documentclass{article}

usepackage{multibib}

newcites{latex}{LaTeX-Literature}%  citelatex, nocitelatex, ...



begin{document}



section{First}

  citelatex{Lamport:94} wrote LaTeX.



bibliographystylelatex{alpha}

bibliographylatex{myrefs}



appendix

section{Second}

   The ultimate reference~cite{Knuth:1990}



bibliographystyle{plain}

bibliography{myrefs}



end{document}

with newcites{suffix}{heading} you can define the special macros.
The example has to be run with

pdflatex <file>

bibtex <file>.aux

bibtex latex.aux

pdflatex <file>

every additional bib needs its own bibtex run and can have a different bibstyle:

You can use the bibunits package and structure your document as follows

documentclass{book}

usepackage{bibunits}



defaultbibliography{<bib-file>}

defaultbibliographystyle{<preferred bib style>}



begin{document}

begin{bibunit}

Main Text

putbib

end{bibunit}



begin{bibunit}

Appendix

putbib

end{bibunit}

end{document}

Another possible solution is to simply compile the body and the appendix separately, and then append them on the back end. A basic script to do this would look like:

latex body.tex

bibtex body.aux

latex body.tex

latex body.tex

dvips -P pdf body.dvi

ps2pdf body.ps



latex appendix.tex

bibtex appendix.aux

latex body.tex

latex body.tex

dvips -P pdf appendix.dvi

ps2pdf appendix.ps    



gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=main.pdf body.pdf appendix.pdf

In this situation, you would need to surround your appendix.tex with appropriate preamble, begin{document}, and end{document}.

The last command (appending via Ghostscript) is taken from the second-ranked answer here. You need to run latex at least thrice, as explained here.

A streamlined script that I wrote (and regularly use), and which you can run from your Linux terminal, is available on GitHub here. It has a few more bells and whistles (syntax checking, deletion of temporary LaTeX compilation files, etc.). The basic syntax is combiner body.tex appendix.tex master.pdf.