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I've been writing my thesis for a month now, and haven't gotten any further than fighting with bibliography-related issues. I've boiled down all the problems I'm having into something very simple with BibTex.

It seems I can't get BibTex to work at all. To test, I've done a very basic LaTeX document, a very basic bibliography file. Please find attached screenshots of them.

I'm using TeXworks (what else is there for Mac?). In the screenshots you can see that the PDF I get is unable to connect my citations from the .tex file to the .bib file. Why is this?

.bib .tex Compiled document

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  • Are there any (error) messages from BiBTeX? Perhaps a .log-file is useful here, your setup here should work as far as I can see. Also plain text is preferred for a minimal working example, as we now have to type out your example instead of copy-paste it. – hugovdberg Apr 13 '14 at 15:49
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    You need to compile your document more than once. Compile in this order: pdfLaTeX, BibTeX, pdfLaTeX, pdfLaTeX. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147515/how-to-use-bibtex-with-texworks – Sverre Apr 13 '14 at 15:49
  • While the linked answer shows TeXworks, it's equally applicable to TeXShop. – egreg Apr 13 '14 at 16:12
  • There of course also is the go-to Question mark instead of citation number. – moewe Apr 13 '14 at 16:18
  • Thanks guys. @Sverre, when you say "Compile in this order: pdfLaTeX, BibTeX, pdfLaTeX, pdfLaTeX" - what do you mean? All I have in TeXworks is the compile button (green 'play' button as seen in screenshot above), with the possibility to choose pdfLaTeX or something else. [at]hugovdberg, thanks for the tip - I'll use plaintext next time! – abrotherus Apr 13 '14 at 20:59
  • @abrotherus Yes, so first compile - by clicking the compile button - with pdfLaTeX, then compile again with BibTeX, etc. – Sverre Apr 14 '14 at 10:44
  • @Sverre Cheers, now I finally understand what that sentence means! This whole LaTeX-world isn't too easy to pick up in the beginning... – abrotherus Apr 14 '14 at 14:48

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