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Below I have attached my code for a report i am writing along with the error codes it is giving me AND the "lab2bib.bib" file that i am using. I am having so many issues with getting bibliographies to work.... PLEASE HELP. When i run the .bib file it tells that it cannot find the lab2bib.aux file as well.

The following code shows (most of) the documents's preamble as well as an excerpt from the paragraph that contains a \cite instruction.

\documentclass[letterpaper,10pt]{article}
\input kvmacros % For Karnaugh Maps (K-Maps)
\usepackage{apacite}
\usepackage{graphicx} % For images
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{float}    % For tables and other floats
\usepackage{verbatim} % For comments and other
\usepackage{amsmath}  % For math
\usepackage{amssymb}  % For more math
\usepackage{fullpage} % Set margins and place page numbers at bottom center
\usepackage{listings} % For source code
\usepackage{subfig}   % For subfigures
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} % For colors and names
\usepackage{hyperref}           % For hyperlinks and indexing the PDF
\hypersetup{ % play with the different link colors here
    colorlinks,
    citecolor=blue,
    filecolor=blue,
    linkcolor=blue,
    urlcolor=blue % set to black to prevent printing blue links
}

\begin{document}  % START THE DOCUMENT!

The capillary action of \dots\ in greater surface tension. \cite{Nobody06}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{lab2bib}

\end{document}

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lab2bib.bib file:

@misc{ Nobody06,
       author = "Nobody Jr",
       title = "My Article",
       year = "2006" 
}
Mico
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Please state more explicitly what you do when you “run the bib file”. – Mico Dec 16 '18 at 05:46
  • I've taken the liberty of making your code a lot more 'minimal', to focus it on the topics of creating citation call-outs and a formatted bibliography. Please compile this greatly condensed version of your document and check if you still encounter bibliography-related problems. Hint: One red flag is that you're loading the apacite package and the plain bibliography style; this cannot go well. If one loads the apacite package, one should employ the apacite bibliography style. Conversely, if you need to employ the plain bib style, you should load the cite package. – Mico Dec 16 '18 at 06:14
  • Off-topic: A suggestion - please get rid of the \vspace{3mm} statements at the ends of all paragraphs and, instead, issue the directive \setlength\parskip{3mm} in the preamble. – Mico Dec 16 '18 at 06:16
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    You need to run BibTeX. But you do not run BibTeX on the .bib file, you need to run BibTeX on the name of your main .tex file (actually on the .aux, butv your editor should take care of that). See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/35864. – moewe Dec 16 '18 at 08:44
  • by using the cite package and plain style, i was able to get it working. the apacite package would not work at all. – Zackary Thomas Schexnider Jan 07 '19 at 06:21
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is solved in comments. – Mensch Feb 08 '19 at 16:15

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