Process multiple bibtex files

Question

I need your help to find a way to process multiple bibtex files in TeXworks for Mac. I have to do this because I am working with multibib. At the moment I select bibtex and press the green bottom to compile, but the second bibliography is not shown on the output file. Thanks in advance for your support!

To process my document, I have to run LaTeX three times and BibTEX two times:

• latex mydoc

• bibtex mydoc

• bibtex sec (How I select a different file name?)

• latex mydoc

• latex mydoc

This is a short version of the code I have:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{sec}{\TeX\ and \LaTeX\ References}

\begin{document}
References to the \TeX book \citeltex{Knuth:1991}
and to Lamport’s \LaTeX\ book, which appears
only in the references\nociteltex{Lamport:1994}.
Finally a cite to a Postscript tutorial
\cite{Adobe:1985}.

\bibliographystylesec{alpha}
\bibliographylsec{lit}

\renewcommand{\refname}{Postscript References}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{lit}
\end{document}

The output should look like this:

Answer 1

You have some errors in your code:

1. \citeltex{Knuth:1991} is wrong. It should be \citesec{Knuth:1991} so that it appears under \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ References. Similarly \nociteltex{Lamport:1994} should be \nocitesec{Lamport:1994}

2. There is a typo in \bibliographylsec{lit}. It should be \bibliographysec{lit}

With these corrections, the following code works. I have included the xampl.bib file that comes bundled with your TeX distribution (as you have provided none).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{sec}{\TeX\ and \LaTeX\ References}

\begin{document}
References to the \TeX book \citesec{book-full}
and to Lamport’s \LaTeX\ book, which appears
only in the references\nocitesec{article-full}.
Finally a cite to a Postscript tutorial
\cite{book-minimal}.

\bibliographystylesec{alpha}
\bibliographysec{xampl}

\renewcommand{\refname}{Postscript References}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{xampl}
\end{document}

Compile this with pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex.

With arara

Save the following code as mydoc.tex.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex: { files: [ mydoc, sec ] }
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{sec}{\TeX\ and \LaTeX\ References}

\begin{document}
References to the \TeX book \citesec{book-full}
and to Lamport’s \LaTeX\ book, which appears
only in the references\nocitesec{article-full}.
Finally a cite to a Postscript tutorial
\cite{book-minimal}.

\bibliographystylesec{alpha}
\bibliographysec{xampl}

\renewcommand{\refname}{Postscript References}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{xampl}
\end{document}

Then run arara mydoc from command line (from the same folder as the mydoc.tex file).

For a more detailed analysis of texworks with multibib, refer to this answer by Paulo: answer by Paulo.