How do I include bibliography (.bbl file) in latex?

Question

I am trying to write my CV, and I want to include a list of publications. To do that, I want to include a .bbl file directly (which was generated using bibtex). So, in my CV I do

\input{publications.bbl}

This seems to work fine, except for one thing: an asterisk (*) appears on the left to the lists of publications! I don't know where this * comes from and why it appears there. Any idea how I can remove this *?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The thebibliography environment is already included in .bbl files so processing the file with \input{publications.bbl} should be enough.

The format of the publication list depends on the bibliography style used by BibTex with the \bibliographystyle command. For more information about available styles take a look at:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management#Bibliography_styles