Bibentry producing no citation

Question

I can't get the \bibentry command to produce a full citation in the body of the text. The reference in the bibliography at the end works perfectly, but in the body of the text there is no output whatsoever. Here is a minimal example that illustrates the problem.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib, bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\begin{document}
   This is supposed to cite in full. Instead I get nothing! \bibentry{Bloggs1950}
\bibliography{fict}
\end{document}

The contents of the fict.bib are

@article{Bloggs1950,
    author = "{Bloggs}, {Joseph K.}",
    journal = "International Journal of Dubious Assertions",
    pages = "337-629",
    title = "{Misusing Scientific Terminology for Fun and Profit}",
    volume = "202",
    year = "1950"
}

How can I fix this problem? Thanks.

I'm using bibtex (F11 in texmaker). Should I be using biber instead? — TheBigH, Aug 07 '14 at 07:34
I get errors with the agsm-style. Beside this you need to add the command \nobibliography* (the documentation of bibentry is at the begin of the style). You can't use biber together with natbib, but you should really consider to switch to biblatex + biber instead of using natbib + bibentry. — Ulrike Fischer, Aug 07 '14 at 07:40
see here for examples using bibtex with the bibentry package or using biblatex and the \fullcite command see the bibentry documentation as well - you're at least missing a \nobibliography command in your example — greyshade, Aug 07 '14 at 14:02
Did you get a solution in the meanwhile for this problem? The 'agsm' style does not seem to be a problem. I have searched for hours. I don't get a solution for this. KR — , Jan 10 '15 at 13:14
@DivanBurger- no, I never found out how to fix this problem. — TheBigH, Jan 12 '15 at 07:13

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

See comments on switching to biblatex and biber - if you want to keep using bibtex, read on.

You're missing a \nobibliography* command - see the documentation and here for details.

But even with the \nobibliography* command there is no output of \bibentry - this seems to be a problem with the agsm style since switching to plain style does fix the problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib, bibentry}
%\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @article{Bloggs1950,
        author = "{Bloggs}, {Joseph K.}",
        journal = "International Journal of Dubious Assertions",
        pages = "337-629",
        title = "{Misusing Scientific Terminology for Fun and Profit}",
        volume = "202",
        year = "1950"
    }
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
    \nobibliography*
    Citation: \cite{Bloggs1950}.
    This is supposed to cite in full. Instead I get nothing! \bibentry{Bloggs1950}
    \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

fixed result

The problem is indeed with the format of the .bbl file created with the agsm style - compare the created .bbl:

\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{Bloggs1950}
{Joseph K.} {Bloggs}.
\newblock {Misusing Scientific Terminology for Fun and Profit}.
\newblock {\em International Journal of Dubious Assertions}, 202:337--629,
  1950.

\end{thebibliography}

with the format mentioned in the documentation under '4. Caveats':

\bibitem[<label>]{<key>}
Text of the reference entry.
\bibitem

they obviously don't fit.

Thank you was sturggling all around and it was the issue with 'agsm' style — Sudantha, Sep 19 '21 at 17:42
I am still getting empty output. I have tried including \nobibliography* \bibliographystyle{plain} I have tried including just \bibliography{bib}, \nobibliography*{bib} and\nobibliography{bib}`. Nothing produces any output. — Marten, Mar 17 '23 at 17:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '23 at 10:08

This is how it works (for me):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage{natbib}
\nobibliography* % here!
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\bibentry{foo}
\bibliography{main}
\end{document}

Apparently, the position of \nobibliography* matters. Remove it or place after \begin{document} and you get an empty output.

Bibentry producing no citation

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