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I am writing a scientific article using LaTeX, with a separate .bib bibliography file, generated via a Zotero Firefox extension collection.

When generating the .pdf document, I get the following error:

Empty 'thebibliography' environment on input line 3

The line 3 contains:

\usepackage{amsmath}

Thus, the Reference section is empty and every citation number in the text appears as [?]. I already tried several things:

  • Inserting a \nocite{*} in the document
  • Changing var = {something} to var = {"something"} in the BibTex file
  • Removing all Unicode characters from the BibTex file

But the error style persist. Any idea?

Ludovic C.
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Ruxhart
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    Hi, welcome to TeX.SX. I'd guess it is line 3 of the .bbl file, not the .tex file. Have you run bibtex? Edit: See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63852/question-mark-instead-of-citation-number for some more explanation about how the system works. – Torbjørn T. Dec 20 '13 at 17:22
  • Thanks for your link! Its read was really useful to understand the problem. I actually solved it: I switched to a Linux running computer and used LaTeXila, which when running "latex" prompted that it skipped lookind in the .bib file because of a space in its name. So I renamed it and now everything compile just fine. – Ruxhart Dec 21 '13 at 09:18

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