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I have written a text and I included the bibliography.

I have cited only two of the items of the bibliography and now only these two appear in the bibliography. Why?

I used the following comands: 

\bibliographystyle{plain} 
\bibliography{mybibliography}

For the bibliography I created a .bib file.

When I use 

\bibliographystyle{alpha} 
\bibliography{mybibliography}

some of the errors I get are the following:

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What do these errors mean?

Mary Star
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    That is the advantage of automatic bib creation, only the things you explicitely cite are added. If you want all, use \nocite{*}. – Johannes_B Nov 18 '15 at 16:38
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    Normally only those items of the .bib that are actually cited appear in the bibliography. If you want to see all of the entries, issue \nocite{*} if you want to force only some entries to appear in the bibliography even though they were not cited use \nocite{foo}. – moewe Nov 18 '15 at 16:39
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    See Using BibTeX to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document? – moewe Nov 18 '15 at 16:40
  • Ok... I used now \nocite{*} and all the items appear... I have also an other problem... When I use \bibliographystyle{alpha} instead of \bibliographystyle{plain} I get some errors... I will add the errors I get at my question above... @moewe – Mary Star Nov 18 '15 at 16:44
  • Could you take a look at my question above? I added some errors I get... @Johannes_B – Mary Star Nov 18 '15 at 16:49
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    Mary, you know the drill. Post a minimal working example and the log file that generates the shown errors, this is possible with sharelatex, i know it, it done it. Without it, we are just as confused as the sharelatex compiler. – Johannes_B Nov 18 '15 at 16:52
  • Sorry, as Johannes_B says, we really need to see an MWE, that is real code, not just a screen shot of the errors in your favourite online compiler. But this \fo looks a bit suspicious, does it appear in anything you have control over? – moewe Nov 18 '15 at 16:57
  • I will post a minimal working example... This \fo maybe comes from \foreignlanguage{english}{...}. @moewe – Mary Star Nov 18 '15 at 17:00
  • It is definitely not a good idea to wrap the author names in \foreignlanguage{english}{...}. – moewe Nov 18 '15 at 17:11
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    Also, a new question should be a new question and should have a new headline. Otherwise people get confused why this very simple question still has no answer. – jarauh Nov 18 '15 at 18:32

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