\cite for website problem

Question

I am having difficulty with \cite, would not compile some of the cites. It is save in a file with extension .bib and the rest of the cites work fine but these ones do not. Any help?

@ONLINE{nistasd,
      title  = "",
      author = "",
      note   = "\url{https://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/levels_form.html}",
      year   = ""
    } 

@MastersThesis{lopez,
    title    = {No wayout},
    school   = {Universidad de Pamplona},
    author   = {P. Lopez},
    year     = {2007}, 
}

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}

%%%%%figure beyond 100
%\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
%\cftsetindents{figure}{0em}{3.5em}
%\cftsetindents{table}{0em}{3.5em}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage{graphicx,rotating}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{siunitx,booktabs}%for table decimals number
\sisetup{separate-uncertainty}%
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage[sectionbib]{chapterbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage{amssymb}%checkmark on table
\usepackage{parskip}%paragraph separation
\setlength\parskip{5pt}%separation after title



\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead{}
\pagestyle{fancy} 
\fancyhead[R]{\textbf{\cfoot{\thepage}}}{\slshape \rightmark}  
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} %lets the head rule disappear.
\lhead{\textbf{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}}
%\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{2.cm}
\usepackage[left=3.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=3.5cm,bottom=4cm,headheight=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{wrapfig} 
\usepackage{nccmath}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs,caption,makecell}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage[textfont=normalfont]{subcaption}
\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}
\newcommand\apj{1925ApJ....61...38R}  % Journal abbreviations 
\addtolength{\topmargin}{.25in}  %topmargin control
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}  %to include subsection in table of cont.
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\pagenumbering{roman}       %change page number style
\flushbottom


\begin{document}

This is given problem to compile  \cite{browning2008basic}
and this \cite{Siegman:98}.
and this \cite{lopez}  
and this \cite{nistasd}
and this \cite{doi:10.1063/1.2142102} 



\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}\newpage\cleardoublepage
\bibliography{sourcespectra}

\end{document}

Here are some entries in the file sourcespectra.bib:

@book{browning2008basic,
  title={Basic Plasma Physics},
  author={Browning, B.},
  isbn={9781409219194},
  url={https://books.google.ie/books?id=pItUOwAACAAJ},
  year={2008},
  publisher={Lulu.com}
}


@inproceedings{Siegman:98,
author = {A. E. Siegman},
booktitle = {DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State) Lasers: Applications and Issues},
journal = {DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State) Lasers: Applications and Issues},
keywords = {},
pages = {MQ1},
publisher = {Optical Society of America},
title = {How to (Maybe) Measure Laser Beam Quality},
year = {1998},
url = {http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=DLAI-1998-MQ1},
doi = {10.1364/DLAI.1998.MQ1},
abstract = {},
}



@MastersThesis{lopez,
    title    = {No wayout},
    school   = {Universidad de Pamplona},
    author   = {P. Lopez},
    year     = {2007}, 
}

@ONLINE{nistasd,
      title  = "",
      author = "",
      note   = "\url{https://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/levels_form.html}",
      year   = ""
    } 



@article{doi:10.1063/1.2142102,
author = {Shinsuke Fujioka and Hiroaki Nishimura and Katsunobu Nishihara and Masakatsu Murakami and Youngces-G Kang and Qincui Gu and Keiji Nagai and Takayoshi Norimatsu and Noriaki Miyanaga and Yasukazu Izawa and Kunioki Mima and Yoshinori Shimada and Atsushi Sunahara and Hiroyuki Furukawa},
title = {Properties of ion debris emitted from laser-produced mass-limited tin plasmas for extreme ultraviolet light source applications},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
volume = {87},
number = {24},
pages = {241503},
year = {2005},
doi = {10.1063/1.2142102},
URL = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2142102},
eprint = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2142102}
}





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Well, "does not compile" is not very helpful ... Please add the error message to your question! — Mensch, Aug 30 '17 at 10:12
This is the error given Citation nistasd' in filechapter2/sourcespectra' on page 15 undefined and the same for the other one — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 10:14
Are you using the modern package biblatex? This stuff does not work with the old system by default. — Johannes_B, Aug 30 '17 at 10:19
where can i find it out? I am not quite sure. I am using bib.tex — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 10:20
Which bibliography style do you employ? And, is there any reason for not setting the author field to {NIST} and the title field to Atomic Spectra Database Levels Form? — Mico, Aug 30 '17 at 10:21
Please post a full minimal example. We need to know whether you are using bibtex or biblatex, the former rarely support the @online type, whereas the latter does. — daleif, Aug 30 '17 at 10:29
The problem is that it is a phd thesis with files outside the main code. — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 10:32
Hi,I have added a simplified version and I hope this helps to deal with this problem because I do not know what to do. — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 10:46
After putting your bib entrys into a bib file I can compile your code without error or undefined citation ... change type online to misc — Mensch, Aug 30 '17 at 11:18
I have posted the errors I am getting when compiling the document. — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 11:22
The screenshot of the error messages strongly suggests that you've failed to rerun BibTeX after adding a few \cite instructions. Please advise. — Mico, Aug 30 '17 at 11:39
I have posted a screenshot of the error messages with the MWE you suggested. — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 11:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '17 at 11:42

Your errors are only warnings and bad boxes.

Let us test another way. Please copy the following MWE (I used package filecontents to have bib file and TeX code together in one MWE) to your computer. Call the file mwe.tex.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{browning2008basic,
  title={Basic Plasma Physics},
  author={Browning, B.},
  isbn={9781409219194},
  url={https://books.google.ie/books?id=pItUOwAACAAJ},
  year={2008},
  publisher={Lulu.com},
}

@inproceedings{Siegman:98,
  author = {A. E. Siegman},
  booktitle = {DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State) Lasers: Applications and Issues},
  journal = {DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State) Lasers: Applications and Issues},
  keywords = {},
  pages = {MQ1},
  publisher = {Optical Society of America},
  title = {How to (Maybe) Measure Laser Beam Quality},
  year = {1998},
  url = {http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=DLAI-1998-MQ1},
  doi = {10.1364/DLAI.1998.MQ1},
  abstract = {},
}

@MastersThesis{lopez,
  title  = {No wayout},
  school = {Universidad de Pamplona},
  author = {P. Lopez},
  year   = {2007}, 
}

@misc{nistasd,
  title  = "",
  author = "",
  note   = "\url{https://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/levels_form.html}",
  year   = ""
} 

@article{doi:10.1063/1.2142102,
  author = {Shinsuke Fujioka and Hiroaki Nishimura and Katsunobu Nishihara and Masakatsu Murakami and Youngces-G Kang and Qincui Gu and Keiji Nagai and Takayoshi Norimatsu and Noriaki Miyanaga and Yasukazu Izawa and Kunioki Mima and Yoshinori Shimada and Atsushi Sunahara and Hiroyuki Furukawa},
  title = {Properties of ion debris emitted from laser-produced mass-limited tin plasmas for extreme ultraviolet light source applications},
  journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
  volume = {87},
  number = {24},
  pages = {241503},
  year = {2005},
  doi = {10.1063/1.2142102},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2142102},
  eprint = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2142102}
}
\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}

%%%%%figure beyond 100
%\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
%\cftsetindents{figure}{0em}{3.5em}
%\cftsetindents{table}{0em}{3.5em}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage{graphicx,rotating}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{siunitx,booktabs}%for table decimals number
\sisetup{separate-uncertainty}%
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage[sectionbib]{chapterbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage{amssymb}%checkmark on table
\usepackage{parskip}%paragraph separation
\setlength\parskip{5pt}%separation after title

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead{}
\pagestyle{fancy} 
\fancyhead[R]{\textbf{\cfoot{\thepage}}}{\slshape \rightmark}  
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} %lets the head rule disappear.
\lhead{\textbf{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}}
%\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{2.cm}
\usepackage[left=3.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=3.5cm,bottom=4cm,headheight=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{wrapfig} 
\usepackage{nccmath}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs,caption,makecell}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
\usepackage[textfont=normalfont]{subcaption}
\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}
\newcommand\apj{1925ApJ....61...38R}  % Journal abbreviations 
\addtolength{\topmargin}{.25in}  %topmargin control
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}  %to include subsection in table of cont.
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\pagenumbering{roman}       %change page number style
\flushbottom


\begin{document}

This is given problem to compile  \cite{browning2008basic}
and this \cite{Siegman:98}.
and this \cite{lopez}  
and this \cite{nistasd}
and this \cite{doi:10.1063/1.2142102} 

\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}%\newpage\cleardoublepage
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Then use the compiling chain

pdflatex mwe.tex
bibtex mwe
pdflatex mwe.tex
pdflatex mwe.tex

Do not forget bibtex mwe!

Then you should get the following pdf without errors and warnings (one warning comes from package filecontents, that is okay):

Check the result on your computer with mine results. If your result is different, add command \listfiles before \documentclass ... and check the log file. At the end you will find a list of used packages and version numbers. Please compare it with the following list, resulting with an current MiKTeX 2.9:

 *File List*
filecontents.sty    2011/10/08 v1.3 Create an external file from within a LaTeX document
  report.cls    2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size12.clo    2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
graphicx.sty    2017/06/01 v1.1a Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
  keyval.sty    2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty    2017/06/25 v1.2c Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    2016/01/03 v1.10 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2016/06/04 v1.11 sample graphics configuration
  pdftex.def    2017/06/24 v1.0g Graphics/color driver for pdftex
rotating.sty    2016/08/11 v2.16d rotated objects in LaTeX
  ifthen.sty    2014/09/29 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)
multirow.sty    2016/11/25 v2.2 Span multiple rows of a table
 siunitx.sty    2017/08/02 v2.7j A comprehensive (SI) units package
   expl3.sty    2017/07/19 L3 programming layer (loader) 
expl3-code.tex    2017/07/19 L3 programming layer 
l3pdfmode.def    2017/03/18 v L3 Experimental driver: PDF mode
  xparse.sty    2017/07/19 L3 Experimental document command parser
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01 AMS text
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0 generic functions
   array.sty    2016/10/06 v2.4d Tabular extension package (FMi)
l3keys2e.sty    2017/07/19 LaTeX2e option processing using LaTeX3 keys
translator.sty    2010/06/12 ver 1.10
translator-language-mappings.tex
booktabs.sty    2005/04/14 v1.61803 publication quality tables
adjustbox.sty    2012/05/21 v1.0 Adjusting TeX boxes (trim, clip, ...)
 xkeyval.sty    2014/12/03 v2.7a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex    2014/12/03 v2.7a key=value parser (HA)
 adjcalc.sty    2012/05/16 v1.1 Provides advanced setlength with multiple back-ends (calc, etex, pgfmath)
trimclip.sty    2012/05/16 v1.0 Trim and clip general TeX material
collectbox.sty    2012/05/17 v0.4b Collect macro arguments as boxes
tc-pdftex.def    2012/05/13 v1.0 Clipping driver for pdftex
ifoddpage.sty    2016/04/23 v1.1 Conditionals for odd/even page detection
varwidth.sty    2009/03/30 ver 0.92;  Variable-width minipages
chapterbib.sty    2010/09/18  v 1.17
setspace.sty    2011/12/19 v6.7a set line spacing
 amssymb.sty    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS font symbols
amsfonts.sty    2013/01/14 v3.01 Basic AMSFonts support
 parskip.sty    2001/04/09 non-zero parskip adjustments
fancyhdr.sty    2017/06/30 v3.9a Extensive control of page headers and footers
geometry.sty    2010/09/12 v5.6 Page Geometry
   ifpdf.sty    2017/03/15 v3.2 Provides the ifpdf switch
  ifvtex.sty    2016/05/16 v1.6 Detect VTeX and its facilities (HO)
 ifxetex.sty    2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
geometry.cfg
 wrapfig.sty    2003/01/31  v 3.6
 nccmath.sty    2005/02/21 v1.2 Additional Math Commands (NCC)
 amsmath.sty    2016/11/05 v2.16a AMS math features
  amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d Bold Symbols
  amsopn.sty    2016/03/08 v2.02 operator names
tabularx.sty    2016/02/03 v2.11 `tabularx' package (DPC)
ragged2e.sty    2009/05/21 v2.1 ragged2e Package (MS)
everysel.sty    2011/10/28 v1.2 EverySelectfont Package (MS)
 caption.sty    2016/02/21 v3.3-144 Customizing captions (AR)
caption3.sty    2016/05/22 v1.7-166 caption3 kernel (AR)
makecell.sty    2009/08/03 V0.1e Managing of Tab Column Heads and Cells
placeins.sty    2005/04/18  v 2.2
subcaption.sty    2016/05/22 v1.1-161 Sub-captions (AR)
     url.sty    2013/09/16  ver 3.4  Verb mode for urls, etc.
supp-pdf.mkii
epstopdf-base.sty    2016/05/15 v2.6 Base part for package epstopdf
infwarerr.sty    2016/05/16 v1.4 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
  grfext.sty    2016/05/16 v1.2 Manage graphics extensions (HO)
kvdefinekeys.sty    2016/05/16 v1.4 Define keys (HO)
 ltxcmds.sty    2016/05/16 v1.23 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
kvoptions.sty    2016/05/16 v3.12 Key value format for package options (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty    2016/05/16 v1.17 Key value parser (HO)
etexcmds.sty    2016/05/16 v1.6 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
ifluatex.sty    2016/05/16 v1.4 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty    2017/03/19 v0.25 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)
translator-basic-dictionary-English.dict    
siunitx-abbreviations.cfg    2017/08/02 v2.7j siunitx: Abbreviated units
    umsa.fd    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols A
    umsb.fd    2013/01/14 v3.01 AMS symbols B

I have posted a screenshot of the error messages with the MWE you suggested. Kurt I am very new to Latex so everything you are suggesting here is very helpful for someone who know more than I. — user138824, Aug 30 '17 at 11:57

\cite for website problem

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