\documentclass{article} \usepackage{natbib} \usepackage{bibentry} \bibliographystyle{apalike} \nobibliography{\jobname} % This is the sample bib file \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib} @book{Saussure1995, Author = {Ferdinand de Saussure}, Origyear = {1916}, Publisher = {Payot}, Title = {Cours de Linguistique G{\'e}n{\'e}rale}, Year = {1995} } \end{filecontents} \begin{document} This is a complete citation in the middle of the text: \bibentry{ \end{document}