LaTeX plus BibTeX but don't work in TeXworks

Question

I have Googled a lot about how to make it work. This is what I have now:

I have IEEEtran.bst, mybibfile.bib and test.tex all located in the same folder.

This is test.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}

\cite{sample1234}Hello world.

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran.bst}
\bibliography{mybibfile.bib}


\end{document}

This is mybibfile.bib:

@book{sample1234,
  title={Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables},
  author={Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A.},
  edition = {9th edition},
  year={1964},
  publisher={Dover}
}

And I press the "Typeset" green arrow button on the TeXworks editor in the following sequence:

tex, bib, tex, tex

After this, the generated "paper" looks like:

[?]Hello world.

Now there are these files in the same folder:

IEEEtran.bst
mybibfile.bib

mybibfile.log --> This file is empty

test.aux

test.log --> This file is not empty

test.pdf
test.synctex.gz
test.tex

My TeXworks version is 0.4.4, and the MiKTeX version is 2.9.

I spent a whole night on it.

EDIT: something suspicious in test.log:

(C:\TUT\BSHE\LATEXBIB\test.aux)
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.


LaTeX Warning: Citation `sample1234' on page 1 undefined on input line 5.

No file test.bbl.
[1

{C:/ProgramData/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}]
(C:\myfolder\test.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '13 at 10:59

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Try replacing \bibliography{mybibfile.bib} with \bibliography{mybibfile}. The extension is not needed and may be in the way.

answered May 20 '13 at 10:59

vaettchen

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Thank you, this was the problem too. Firstly, I pressed the green button on .tex pdflatex, then I pressed the green button on .bib bibtex. and then .tex pdflatex and again. That's why there is no bbl. Then I noticed it says the text.bbl not found, so I change the second press - I pressed the button in .tex but with pdflatex changed into bibtex. Then the bbl is generated but it is empty. After I deleted the .bib as you commented, everything works. (With Lauri that I did this) :D – Tiina May 20 '13 at 11:58

LaTeX plus BibTeX but don't work in TeXworks

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