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I am not able to make citations. I set up my .bib file, my \bibiography{path} and \bibliographystyle{plain}, I compile my file stuuf so latex bibtex latex latex and I only get [?] were the reference should be and a warning:

LaTeX Warning: Citation `blablabla' on page n undefined on input line 214.

Any ideas? My example code: 

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} 

\usepackage{cite}

\begin{document}

Citations are fun \cite{blumEcologyRiverAlgae1956}

\section{References}

\bibliography{path to/Mylibrary}

\bibliographystyle{plain}

\end{document}

Example from my .bib file

@article{blumEcologyRiverAlgae1956,
  title = {The Ecology of River Algae},
  volume = {22},
  issn = {0006-8101, 1874-9372},
  doi = {10.1007/BF02872474},
  language = {en},
  number = {5},
  journal = {The Botanical Review},
  author = {Blum, John L.},
  month = may,
  year = {1956},
  pages = {291-341},
  file = {path to the file}
}

I also get the notification:

Process started I couldn't open file name `Mylibrary.aux' Process exited normally

when I compile my .bib file. Not sure if this is relevant because when I tried citing on a new empty document (so not my main document) it worked once but then never again.

Schweinebacke
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matze160
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  • First up, use a forward slash on that file name, and no .bib extension. Secondly, bibtex only includes those you have explicitly cited (unless told othervise). Thirdly, remember latex, bibtex, latex, latex – daleif Apr 10 '19 at 07:54
  • I used the wrong slash on my example, sorry, I removed the .bib but its still not working, and I am compiling latex, bibtex latex latex, i changed my text so that it should be clearer now :). The references i used are also in my .bib file if thats what you meant. – matze160 Apr 10 '19 at 08:13
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    Are you by any chance trying to compile the bib file? It does sound like you might be. The commands all get run on the basename of the latex file: so if your document is called foo.tex then it's latex foo.tex, bibtex foo, latex foo.tex – Paul Stanley Apr 10 '19 at 08:16
  • Please show us a minimal but working example with bib-file. Currently we are not able to reproduce the problem with the shown code. Currently we even do not now, whether you've used the correct cite key or whether there are mistakes in your .bib-file. – Schweinebacke Apr 10 '19 at 08:18
  • Related (and maybe duplicate): https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/9057 – Schweinebacke Apr 10 '19 at 08:20
  • also, ... three dots, where exactly is that .bib file? If it is one level up, then it should be two dots. You should see this in the log file from bibtex. (it has extension .blg which Windows hides by default). – daleif Apr 10 '19 at 08:23
  • no the ... represents the rest of the path to the .bib file, which is in the same folder as my main document. – matze160 Apr 10 '19 at 08:35
  • Off-Topic: Please have a look at https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ to find out, how to format your questions. – Schweinebacke Apr 10 '19 at 08:46
  • Your example does work an does not show any error. So please show us the BibTeX-log-file (the one with the extension .blg). Maybe just the path to/Mylibrary is wrong. – Schweinebacke Apr 10 '19 at 08:49
  • Or maybe the you run BibTeX with the wrong file-name, e.g., if your main file is names foo.tex you have to run "bibtex foo" not "bibtex Mylibrary". – Schweinebacke Apr 10 '19 at 08:51
  • I was doing that (and I really feel stupid for it) It now kind of works, I get some warnings file missing years and things like that but I can I just have to search for that particular file and add the year. Thank you! – matze160 Apr 10 '19 at 09:07

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