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I'm trying to convert a large excel into a big bibtex bibliography. I'm running a sample first. I run my code, but it doesn't look as it should.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document} 
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybib}
@article{article1, 
author={Sell, Ralph R.}, 
title={TRANSFERRED JOBS.}, 
journal={Work and Occupations},
volume={10}, 
number={2}, 
year={1983},
pages={179-206}
}
\end{document}

which prints

References
@articlearticle1, author=Sell, Ralph R., title=TRANSFERRED JOBS., journal=Work and Occupations, volume=10, number=2, year=1983, pages=179- 206

What are I missing?

Phillip Black
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This automatically writes a mynewbib.bib file and puts the content between \begin{filecontents}...\end{filecontents} there. If mynewbib.bib already exists, nothing will be (over)written.

I added a citation of article1 and compiled this document called foo.tex with

  1. pdflatex foo
  2. bibtex foo
  3. pdflatex foo

Compiling twice with pdflatex is important and necessary to get the references and the input of the bib - stuff correct.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\begin{filecontents}{mynewbib.bib}
@article{article1, 
author={Sell, Ralph R.}, 
title={TRANSFERRED JOBS.}, 
journal={Work and Occupations},
volume={10}, 
number={2}, 
year={1983},
pages={179-206}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\cite{article1}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mynewbib}

\end{document}

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If I used the abstract.bst as given in the comment below, the output will be this

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  • Thank you so much! Do you know how I would add this format? http://get-software.net/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/abstract.bst – Phillip Black Jun 16 '15 at 16:18
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    Should be \bibliographystyle{abstract} then. Make sure to place abstract.bst in your local directory then –  Jun 16 '15 at 16:22
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    @PhillipBlack: I tried your abstract.bst. As I wrote before: Use \bibliographystyle{abstract} then. Please note, that abstract.bst is already contained in a standard TeXLive (and MikTeX too?) setup, so there's no need to place that file in a local working directory –  Jun 16 '15 at 20:48