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I need to deliver a report using Latex. Since the beginning I have had a lot of difficulties with it, that thankfully were resolved when I started using the Texmaker tool. Unfortunately the references still do not work and I have already wasted too many hours trying to figure it out.

I have a file where I define all my references which is called refbase.bib . As an example, this is one of my entries in it:

 @Article{belkin:1990,
 title                    = {The cognitive viewpoint in information science},
 author                   = {Nicholas J. Belkin},
 journal                  = JIS,
 year                     = {1990},
 pages                    = {11--15},
 volume                   = {16}
}

For me to call these references to my the reference section of my report, I have the file references.tex and have just the following command:

\bibliography{./refbase}

My sources told me that this should call the bibliography list and make my reference page, however nothing is happening. The file is completely ignored.

Also, whenever I call a citation during the report, I will get this in it's place "(??)". The way I make the citation is as follows (also according to what the source websites tell me to do:

bla blabla blabla bla \cite{belkin:1990}.

Anyone have a clue as to what is going on and how to fix it?

Thank you very much.

Martin Schröder
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theJuls
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  • I am unsure how texmaker works, but the logfile of the compile should contain warnings about undefined references. You should run bibtex and then pdflatex (twice) to sort this out. – Benjamin Bannier Apr 07 '14 at 18:32
  • Thanks @BenjaminBannier. Turns out, I just needed to do exactly that, but a bunch of times consecutive... I don't know what to think of that... –  Apr 07 '14 at 18:50
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Soooo the problem has been solved.

Apparently I needed to run bibtex and the quickbuild many times consecutive. After about 3 times running each one, it just starts working.

I really don't know what to think of it... But as of now, at least I finally got it working.

theJuls
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  • You can also use TeXworks and its compiling option "pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX". Once you do that, "quick build" with your compiler should work. (Although every time you add an entry to the .bib file, you need to re-run the triple compile again.) – Argyll Oct 27 '15 at 11:49