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After I reviewed similar StackExchange questions, I've decided to ask;

I want to write an article using the IEEE transaction LaTeX template. I use Mendeley as a reference manager and TeXstudio as editor. My OS is Windows.
First, I've created my bib files from Mendeley/Options/BibTeX by selecting Create one BibTeX file per group "in the same folder" as my tex file. You will see the original bib file names in the code below, but I did not know whether the problem originated there, so I tried to do it with two simple names such as bib1 and bib2.
I cite references in-text using the \cite command. For example, \cite{Tan2019}, \cite{Valente2019}. For the bibliography section, my code is,

\begin{thebibliography}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{Journals & Proceedings-Autonomous Driving,Journals & Proceedings-Visual Odometry}
\end{thebibliography}

As mentioned, I tried \bibliography{bib1, bib2}.
So I am getting the following error message: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. \begin{thebibliography}{}

I couldn't see the proper in-text citation and a bibliography. How can I do that correctly? Or do you advise any method to write an IEEE article in Texstudio with Mendeley on Windows?

Salim Azak
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    \bibliography{mybibfile} replaces the thebibliography environment, drop \begin{thebibliography} and \end{thebibliography}. You will then need to run bibtex as well as (pdf)latex and it should just work with a correctly formed bib file. – Dai Bowen Apr 08 '23 at 15:19
  • Thanks, this solved my problem. I don't understand why IEEE doesn't update those issues in templates. What do you mean by "run BibTeX, then LaTeX" ? There are similar advice on Internet: $ latex myarticle $ bibtex myarticle $ latex myarticle $ latex myarticle I work with Windows. I don't understand "running BibTeX." – Salim Azak Apr 09 '23 at 19:44
  • Fully manual compilation requires running a separate executable bibtex as well as latex, some editors will do this for you. If your bibliography is appearing correctly after using just \bibliography{mybibfile} then you probably don't need to worry about it right now, if that changes or you're generally interested have a read of the linked question "Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number". – Dai Bowen Apr 09 '23 at 19:52

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