I suddenly got this error. I was compiling just fine before, everything worked, then suddenly bibtex provides me this error? I added another entry to the library unrelated to the one which provides the error, and it's the exact same format as all my other entries(C/P'ed from google scholar). What's up with this?
I attempted to comment out the citation which gave the error. Now it just moves the error around to other lines?
Tried deleting the .aux file associated with the .tex file, no dice.
Wait, i'm provided the following error: arning--to sort, need author or key in forbes2012 Warning--empty year in forbes2012 Warning--empty journal in banea2008bootstrapping Warning--empty journal in fisher2011social (There was 1 error message) - but, these are all entered with authopr and key? Empty year quite frankly isn't true, there is year={20xx} in all of them? Why?
empty yearinforbes2012is the relevant one. Are you sure that entry is well formed? Test it by making a document that cites only that item and nothing else, and post that here. – Alan Munn Sep 05 '15 at 03:20.bibentry? Typically you should have at least author, year, journal and title present in the entry. How are you managing your.bibfile? If you use something like Jabref (cross platform) or BibDesk (Mac) the interface will typically catch some of these kinds or errors. – Alan Munn Sep 05 '15 at 03:45.auxone. An auxiliary file might cause an error if the compilation is aborted while TeX is still writing it to the disk. It does not matter whether your last edit seems related to the error or not. And that is the reason that even you Ctrl-Z the file to the previous, compilable status, the error still pops up. – Symbol 1 Sep 05 '15 at 04:52