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I am writing a paper using LNCS format. My question is how could I use my existing BIB file and generate the reference as format of LNCS?

I followed the page: How can I insert by .bib file into my .tex file?

and I do

\bibliographystyle{splncs03} 
\bibliography{typeinst.bib}

but it does not work. TexMaker reported an error:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015) The top-level auxiliary file: typeinst.aux I couldn't open style file splncs.bst ---line 2 of file typeinst.aux : \bibstyle{splncs : } I'm skipping whatever remains of this command I found no \bibdata command---while reading file typeinst.aux I found no style file---while reading file typeinst.aux (There were 3 error messages)

How could I resolve the problem?

Thanks a lot,

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    The error message tells you that BibTeX couldn't find the splncs.bst bibliography style file. Incidentally, you should leave off the .bib extension in the argument of \bibliography, i.e., you should write \bibliography{typeinst}. – Mico Oct 10 '15 at 07:51
  • Just to be sure, you have typeinst.tex and typeinst.bib in your folder? tex and bib with the same basename? – Johannes_B Oct 10 '15 at 08:35
  • Hi, the comment of Mico is correct. For some reasons I cannot know, there is no .bst file in the directory. After I copied the file to the directory of TEX file, everything is okay now. – mommomonthewind Oct 10 '15 at 14:43

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The error message tells you that BibTeX couldn't find the splncs.bst bibliography style file. This may be either because the file isn't present at all or because it was stored in a directory that's not searched by BibTeX. The easiest remedy, for now, may be to store the bib style in the directory where your main tex file is located.

Incidentally, you should leave off the ".bib" extension in the argument of \bibliography, i.e., you should write 

\bibliography{typeinst}
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