Chapterbib is working but keeps giving me errors. Any way to silence it?

Question

I'm using Chapterbib to write my bibliography separately after each chapter. It does work but bibtex is still giving me plenty of errors and warnings:

Illegal, another \bibstyle command
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command.

Illegal, another \bibdata command
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command.

Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "druhy".

etc. Basically I'm getting 2 error messages per file and 1 warning message per citation. Since the final publication will be quite large, I'd rather not have tens of errors and hundreds of warnings when I compile it all together. Is there any way around it? I'd be happy with just silencing these particular error and warning messages. I did follow the instructions for the build order (latex, bibtex on individual files, latex, latex).

Minimal working example:

Test.tex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chapterbib}
\begin{document}
\include{chapter1}
\include{chapter2}
\end{document}

Chapter1.tex

blabla \cite{prvni}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{jedna}

Chapter2.tex

bleble \cite{druhy}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{dva}

jedna.bib

@article{prvni,
author = "A. Aa",
title = "blahblah",
year = "2000",
journal = "tojefuk"
}

dva.bib

@article{druhy,
author = "B. Bb",
title = "blehbleh",
year = "2001",
journal = "tojejedno"
}

I can’t reproduce the error, but this question looks like it might be helpful. — alexwlchan, Feb 06 '14 at 10:40
Did you really run bibtex separatly on the aux-files of the included files (correct) or also on the aux-file of the main file (wrong)? — Ulrike Fischer, Feb 06 '14 at 11:56
@alexwlchan: I'm using TeXnicCenter for building my .pdf files and TeXworks for building bibliographies if it makes any difference. — Michal, Feb 06 '14 at 13:03
@UlrikeFischer: Yes, I used TexnicCenter on test.tex, then I used TeXworks and built the chapter1.aux and chapter2.aux files with BibTeX and followed with TexnicCenter, building test.tex twice again. — Michal, Feb 06 '14 at 13:06
This example compiles fine for me. It may be simplest if you could use/install latexmk and use that - I knows how to cope with this situation. — Andrew Swann, Feb 06 '14 at 14:45
Do you use some build profile from TeXnicCenter which includes a bibtex run? — Ulrike Fischer, Feb 06 '14 at 16:55
@UlrikeFischer: You were right! The default build profile that I used did build the bibtex as well. I'm getting no more errors or warnings once I turned it off. Many many thanks! — Michal, Feb 07 '14 at 16:17

Andrew Swann · Answer 1 · 2022-11-25T09:16:32.537

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The problem is due to a build profile in TeXnicCenter, which included a run of bibtex on the main file. Turning off this profile removes the error messages.

edited Nov 25 '22 at 09:16

answered Jul 08 '15 at 18:42

Andrew Swann

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I am having this issue in Overlead. How can I go about "Turning off this profile" in overleaf? – Daniel Nov 24 '22 at 16:48
@Daniel I suggest contacting the overleaf staff via their link in help. – Andrew Swann Nov 25 '22 at 09:20

Chapterbib is working but keeps giving me errors. Any way to silence it?

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