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This is my first time trying to create citations and a bibliography. I have read plenty of information online and watched numerous videos. I still am not sure if I understand it. I am using TexMaker since it is the only software that works well for me.

  1. Following and online guide here is how my main document looks.
\documentclass[11pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}

\begin{document}


\begin{titlepage}
\title{Homework 1: Annotated Bibliography}
\author{Author Name}
\end{titlepage}
\maketitle


Game Theory \cite{test}


\bibliography{anbib}
\bibliographystyle{plain}


\end{document}
  1. I created a file called anbib.bib and placed in the same folder.

@article{test,
title={A general theory of equilibrium selection in games}, author={Harsanyi, John C and Selten, Reinhard},
journal={MIT Press Books}, volume={1}, year={1988},
publisher={The MIT Press} }

  1. I try to compile the main file using quickquick build in TexMaker and the title shows up fine. Then I get in the main text Game Theory [?]. Furthermore I do not see a bibliography in my document.

What am I doing wrong? I read somewhere that I can download software called BibTex to make a bibliography document. I cannot find it for download anywhere.

Sorry about the formatting. Normally all my code shows up fine in StackExchange. For some reason not so much here.

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  • You have to run bibtex. I'm not sure if TeXmaker's Quick Build does this. You can check in the Options menu. – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 19:37
  • OK. Thanks. I can select BibTex in the drop down menu. And I run it. Now if I run Quick Build again I see a references section. However, in the main text I still see a [?]. – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 19:42
  • You have to do the sequence: latex+latex+bibtex+latex+view or pdflatex if you wish a pdf output. If I'm not wrong: F6 F6 F11 (F12) F6 F7 – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 19:45
  • Im not sure about the F-keys. But I did that sequence in the exact order. The reference section is there. I still have the [?] in the main text. – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 19:48
  • It works here. Are you sure that you run bibtex instead of biblatex? – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 19:51
  • It looks like it works now. Apparently you have to run it several times. Thank you for your help. Now on too figuring out how to add an annotation to the reference. – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 20:06
  • You have to run bibtex only if you cite a new reference. – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 20:07
  • What do you mean by annotation? Maybe \cite[Theorem~3.2]{test} – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 20:08
  • OK. Thanks. Like I said, completely new to all of this. Just out of curiosity what does the latex command do that quick build doesn't. Also, do you have any idea of how to add an annotation into the bibliography? – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 20:09
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 20:11
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    i've just looked at the texmaker documentation for "quick build". it does seem to delete some files when starting up, but it's not totally clear on which all of them are. if it deletes the .bbl file, then you will get the result you describe. so, instead of "quick build", simply run latex again, and then view the output. – barbara beeton Jun 20 '15 at 20:12
  • @barbarabeeton Nice! So why people developing TeXmaker don't fix this problem! – Sigur Jun 20 '15 at 20:14
  • @Sigur -- a good question. they could at least document what files the "quick build" deletes. more to the point, why don't they check for the presence of a .bib file, and if it's there, run bibtex from the "quick build"? (not a user, so i'm not going to report it, but the op could, if this turns out to be the problem.) – barbara beeton Jun 20 '15 at 20:19
  • I will do that. Do either of you know how to add an annotation to the bibliography. It should look like what is at the bottom of this document that I found. http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/graduate/CMSC601/Spring09/bib-guidelines.pdf – amkas90 Jun 20 '15 at 20:44
  • Add note = {Annotation appended to entry in bibliography.} to the relevant entry in your .bib file. – cfr Jun 20 '15 at 23:43
  • @barbarabeeton with quick build you can do all this in one pass example you can run : pdflatex +bib(la)tex+pdflatex(2times)+pdfviewer. – touhami Jun 21 '15 at 00:16
  • @touhami -- is what you describe automatic, or does it have to be "set up"? if the latter, i didn't see any obvious documentation on the texmaker site, but i wasn't looking for it either. – barbara beeton Jun 21 '15 at 12:14
  • @barbarabeeton You have to set it up, but i really don't see the point. I want a Quick build, no need to run bibtex and latex several times when i want a quick look at the output. Maybe they should add a button complete build. Could be a feature request. – Johannes_B Jun 21 '15 at 12:57
  • @barbarabeeton it's as johannes_B said – touhami Jun 21 '15 at 15:16
  • Thats cool. Can just select it under options to change the default Quick Build path. Did not see that before. – amkas90 Jun 21 '15 at 17:36

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