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In article <Btp4Ms.6EK@news.larc.nasa.gov>, burton@hops.larc.nasa.gov
(John Burton) writes:
| Okay, I know this is probably an easy question, but I just can't
| seem to find an answer. How do I get BibTeX/LaTeX to generate
| a bibliography at the end of a report (report.sty) with NO reference 
| labels in front of the entry ? i.e. what I want is
| 
|   Blow, Joe, "The decline and fall of humor in America",
|   Null Press Inc., 1999.
| 
| what I get is
| 
|  [1] Blow, Joe, "The decline and fall of humor in America",
|      Null Press Inc., 1999.
| 
| My first (obvious) attempt was to use the \nocite{} construct
| but this didn't work...suggestions?

The formatting of the bibliographic entry is defined by the \bibitem macro,
More specifically, \bibitem uses \@biblabel to format the label on a
reference.  Both are defined in LATEX.TEX, and can be re-defined by a style
file.

The following trivial style file will do what you want:

%
% Produce an empty bibliography entry label.  This has no effect on how
% citations are formatted.
%
\def\@biblabel#1{}              % Produces the label for a \bibitem[...]
                                % command. 

Put this in a file, say nobiblabel.sty, and added nobiblabel to the list of
style options in your \documentstyle command.
							-- Jerry