Citations in Texmaker using Mendeley to form a bibtex database

Question

I'm fairly new to LaTeX and having trouble with citations when using texmaker.

I have used Mendeley to produce what i believe is the .bib file containing all relevant references. (File produced = library & Filetype = BibTex Database, when double clicked "library" is opening in TEXworks). The bibtex file (library) seems to be in the correct format i.e.

@report{refname,
abstract = {},
author = {},
doi = {},
file = {},
issn = {},
journal = {},
keywords = {},
month = ,
number = {},
pages = {},
pmid = {},
title = {{}},
url = {},
volume = {},
year = {}
}

Within Texmaker i have the generic Latex source saved as testdoc.tex

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\begin{document}
Blahblah \cite{refname}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{library}
\end{document}

however within the PDF my citations do not appear to work and have the warning message

LaTeX Warning: Citation `refname' on page X undefined on input line XX.
No file testdoc.bbl.

Did you call BibTeX using the Key F11? Then again a latex run is required. — Johannes_B, Jan 09 '14 at 08:40
Using package biblatex along with biber (processing tool, the bibtex replacement) could also be a good idea. — Johannes_B, Jan 09 '14 at 08:44
That seems to have solved the problem (F11 solution), thank you very much :). Just to further my knowledge, what was i doing incorrectly i.e. what does pressing F11 while in texmaker actually do? — Adam Williams, Jan 09 '14 at 08:46
F11 calls BibTex, which is reading your .aux file, sorting your Bibliography and generating the .bbl file. — Johannes_B, Jan 09 '14 at 08:49
Is there any reason why \cite{refname} works and \citep{refname} does not? Warning message is due to an Undefined control sequence — Adam Williams, Jan 09 '14 at 08:56
Where do you have \citep{refname} from? IIRC it comes from package natbib. But if you are free to choose, use biblatex. — Johannes_B, Jan 09 '14 at 09:00

Citations in Texmaker using Mendeley to form a bibtex database

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