UK TeX FAQ -- question 110

### Listing all your BibTeX entries

LaTeX and BibTeX co-operate to offer special treatment of this requirement. The command `\nocite{*}` is specially treated, and causes BibTeX to generate bibliography entries for every entry in each `.bib` file listed in your `\bibliography` statement, so that after a LaTeX-BibTeX-LaTeX sequence, you have a document with the whole thing listed.

Note that LaTeX doesn't produce "`Citation ... undefined`" or "`There were undefined references`" warnings in respect of `\nocite{*}`. This isn't a problem if you're running LaTeX "by hand" (you know 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.