Edit:
This question is actually a duplicate of this question. It's solution worked for me.
Basically, I want to do what this question is doing, but using bibtex instead of biblatex.
To summarize what it's doing there, I want a single .bib files to store the bibliography entries for an entire document. When I run a section file (ie. not the main.tex), it cannot find the Sources.bib and so fails to make the reference. If I run main.tex though, the reference that is inside the section file resolves perfectly fine.
For a minimum working example (it doesn't run correctly, but it gives you the idea), see below.
So I have the following file structure:
project_dir
| main.tex
| background.tex
| Sources.bib
Inside main.tex, I have:
%%%% main.tex %%%
\documentclass[10pt]{ClemsonThesis}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{subfiles}
\begin{document}
% blah blah blah
\subfile{background.tex}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Sources}
\end{document}
%%% background.tex %%%
\documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
%blah blah blah
Here's some random text I have in a few paragraphs. Here's a citation for referencing an external resource: \cite{McCormack2012}.
\end{document}
%%% Sources.bib %%%
@Inbook{McCormack2012,
author="McCormack, Percival",
title="The Vortex",
bookTitle="Vortex, Molecular Spin and Nanovorticity: An Introduction",
year="2012",
publisher="Springer New York",
address="New York, NY",
pages="1--65",
abstract="The first notable works on fluid motions appeared in the early seventeenth century. Descartes in his ``Principia Philosophiae'' (1644) considered that space was filled with frictional vortices, so that the planets are carried along by the vortex motions. Vortices had fascinated mankind for many centuries before Descartes. It was considered that life had started in the water of the primeval vortex -- in whirlwinds and whirlpools.",
isbn="978-1-4614-0257-2",
doi="10.1007/978-1-4614-0257-2_1",
url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0257-2_1"
}
Using the files below, if I compile background.tex, the bibtex reference fails. If I run main.tex, the bibtex reference that is in background.tex resolves perfectly fine.
I've tried adding \bibliography{Sources} to the end of the background.tex file, but got nothing.
