Turning BibTex to thebibliography in LaTex

When writing a research paper using LaTex, it is usually a good idea to use BibTex for references, too. Of course, this is what I normally do, because it is easy to cite any papers that I have read and kept in my collection.

However, there are times when we will have to submit a paper to an academic journal, which does not let us use and uoload our BibTex file during the submission process. What they ask us to use for references is LaTex's \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography} command instead.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to turn our BibTex references to thebibliography in LaTex. We just have to follow the following steps.

1. Cite and compile the LaTex document with BibTex as usual. By using BibTex, a .bbl file is generated.
2. Open the .bbl file
3. Copy the content in the .bbl file
4. Paste it inside the \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography}
5. Remove the command that calls for BibTex
6. Compile the LaTex document again

 That's it. Yes ... it is that simple.

Enjoy writing quality research papers!  ^_^