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I just want to know if the following reference is written in the correct format of a .bib file. The error I got when compiling it is 

Warning--empty journal in saleh_medina_leila_m._structural_2014
Warning--empty year in saleh_medina_leila_m._structural_2014

the entry is

@article{saleh_medina_leila_m._structural_2014,
    title = {Structural, dielectric and magnetic properties of Bi1-{xYxFeO}3 (0 {\textless}x {\textless} 0.2) obtained by acid–base co-precipitation},
    volume = {592},
    doi = {10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.12.243},
    pages = {306--312},
    journaltitle = {Journal of Alloys and Compounds},
    shortjournal = {J. Alloys. Comp.},
    author = {{Saleh Medina, Leila M.} and {Jorge, Guillermo} and {Negri, R. Martín}},
    date = {2014}
}
moewe
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    Your .bib file looks as if it was written for biblatex. If you use it with standard BibTeX styles, you need to use the year field and not date, also journaltitle needs to be journal. Finally, your author field should be author = {Saleh Medina, Leila M. and Jorge, Guillermo and Negri, R. Martín},, i.e. don't double brace authors as this will treat the name as one unit and does not distinguish between first and last names. – moewe Oct 12 '15 at 08:41
  • the date field need to have an argument with following format : yyyy-mm-dd (cf. http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf p.14) – ebosi Oct 12 '15 at 08:43
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    @ebo But it is OK to leave out information you don't have, so date = {2014} if you only have the year is perfectly fine, you can even have date = {2014-12} for December 2014. – moewe Oct 12 '15 at 08:45
  • @moewe I didn't knew, thanks for information. – ebosi Oct 12 '15 at 08:51
  • @moewe I imported the .bib file from Zotero Standalone. I tried to compile it with BibLatex, without success. is there a way not to write the .bib to solve this? thanks! – Leila Oct 13 '15 at 12:06
  • Can you show a MWE of the document you try to use this with? – moewe Oct 13 '15 at 14:06
  • @moewe here I sent an MWE (I hope it's complete, I am novice) \documentclass[serif,mathserif,final]{beamer} \mode{\usetheme{lankton}} \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,pxfonts,eulervm,xspace} \usepackage{graphicx} \graphicspath{{./figures/}} \usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=custom,width=84,height=119,scale=1.2,debug]{beamerposter} \usepackage{cite} \usepackage[document]{ragged2e} \begin{document} \begin{block}{Preparaci'on de las pel'iculas} Las $BiFeO_{3}$ sintetizadas \cite{saleh_medina_leila_m._structural_2014} y tolueno.\end{block}\end{document} – Leila Oct 13 '15 at 17:30
  • While it is not exactly complete the MWE suggest that you are not uzsing the package biblatex, but the cite package and thus "normal" BibTeX where the restrictions I explained above apply. You have to use year and not date, and journal instead of journaltitle. shortjournal will probably be ignored. Or you switch to use biblatex (What to do to switch to biblatex?) – moewe Oct 14 '15 at 05:42

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