Including the Bibliography into the LATEX Source File

You can reduce the number of files you have to send to the IEEE publishers in the following way. Run BIEM BTEX on the *.aux file. This creates a *.bbl file: include this into your LATEX source file at the place where you defined the \bibliography{..} command and comment this command out. Remove the *.bbl file. Then, your LATEX file will include all the necessary information about your bibliography and no *.bbl or *.bib file will be needed.

This may seem like an awful lot of work... but not really.. This will allow to process your paper quickly and efficiently, and assure you that what you send in will actually be sent back to you without mistakes (cites, refs etc.).