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Can anybody simply tell me how should I use BibTeX in TeX Live 2013? I saved my references in a .bib file and I write the following in my .tex file:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{plain}%Choose a bibliograhpic style
%
author~\cite{Meyer2000}.
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\bibliography{Master}
\end{document}

What I should do afterwards?

I compile it with BibTeX and PDFLaTeX but it does not help.

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    The correct sequence is: latex file.tex, bibtex file.aux, latex file.tex, latex file.tex. (Note that the extensions .tex and .aux are not strictly necessary, but are implied and thereby used even when you omit them. And of course, you can use any of the following commands in place of latex: latex (produces .dvi by default), pdflatex (produces .pdf by default), lualatex, or xelatex -- these last two require the use of a slightly different preamble from 'regular' LaTeX.) – jon Feb 21 '14 at 20:12
  • Use example files from http://andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/bibliographies Download bib.tex and sample.bib to a folder. Run pdflatex bib-> bibtex -> pdflatex bib-> pdflatex bib from that folder with proper sequence to get bib.pdf – texenthusiast Feb 21 '14 at 20:25
  • @jon made an answer with your comment, hope it's ok – texenthusiast Feb 25 '14 at 03:23
  • @texenthusiast -- No problem! – jon Feb 25 '14 at 03:44
  • Isn't this essentially the same as http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63852/question-mark-instead-of-citation-number? – Joseph Wright Feb 25 '14 at 08:43
  • @Joseph Wright No this is not the same. My question was about Tex Live I saw that question but I did not know that which option I should select instead of latex. There were pdflatex, XeLatex and many other thing in Tex Live but there was no Latex. – Ali Feb 27 '14 at 20:09
  • @Ali TeX Live is a TeX distribution, not an editor. I suspect you are talking about the TeXworks editor, bundled as part of TeX Live but not the same thing. – Joseph Wright Feb 27 '14 at 21:05
  • @Joseph Wright I am sorry. Yes, I was talking about Texworks. – Ali Feb 27 '14 at 21:24

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As Jon has pointed out in his comment.

The correct sequence is: latex file.tex, bibtex file.aux, latex file.tex, latex file.tex. (Note that the extensions .tex and .aux are not strictly necessary, but are implied and thereby used even when you omit them. And of course, you can use any of the following commands in place of latex: latex (produces .dvi by default), pdflatex (produces .pdf by default), lualatex, or xelatex -- these last two require the use of a slightly different preamble from 'regular' LaTeX.)

To test a bibtex run use example files at http://andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/bibliographies

Download bib.tex and sample.bib to a folder. Run pdflatex bib-> bibtex -> pdflatex bib-> pdflatex bib from that folder with proper sequence to get bib.pdf

Alternatively one can automate the compiling using latexmk and arara

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