I realise this is probably an easy fix, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get referencing to work (using TeXmaker for reference, though I doubt it makes a difference?) even after looking through several threads where people had similar issues. To my knowledge, I have followed every tutorial I've seen on using BibTeX correctly, but I am getting these errors.
Both Project_Report_WIP.tex and Project_Report_WIP_References.bib are saved in the same folder.
Here is Project_Report_WIP.tex
\begin{document}
...
Schoenemann and Steig (2016)\cite{Schoenemann and Steig (2016)}
...
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Project_report_WIP_References}
\end{document}
And here is Project_Report_WIP_References.bib
@article{schoenemann and Steig (2016),
AUTHOR="John Doe",
TITLE="The Book without Title",
PUBLISHER="Dummy Publisher",
YEAR="2100",
}
(currently just using a dummy example as it doesn't work yet anyway)
When I run quickbuild (Which is set to PdfLaTeX + BibTex + PdfLaTeX (x2) + View Pdf, as suggested by others who had a similar issue) on Project_Report_WIP.tex I get the following message:
Process started
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2019/W32TeX) The top-level auxiliary file: Project_Report_WIP.aux White space in argument---line 24 of file Project_Report_WIP.aux : \citation{Schoenemann : and Steig
(2016)} I'm skipping whatever remains of this command The style file: plain.bst I found no cite keys---
while reading file Project_Report_WIP.aux Database file #1: Project_report_WIP_References.bib I was
expecting a ,' or a}'---line 1 of file Project_report_WIP_References.bib : @article{schoenemann : and
Steig (2016), I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry (There were 3 error messages)
Process exited with error(s)
When I run BibTeX on Project_report_WIP_References.bib, I get:
I couldn't open file name `Project_Report_WIP_References.aux'
Process exited with error(s)
I cannot even find Project_Report_WIP_References.aux. Project_Report_WIP.aux exists, created in the same folder as all the other files, but Project_Report_WIP_References.aux was not created and can't therefore be opened.
Any help would be much appreciated. I do not know how to produce a .aux file for the .bib file if that is required
Project_report_WIP_References.bib,...". You should never, ever run BibTeX on the bib file. Assuming the main tex file is calledProject_Report_WIP.tex, what you should do is executebibtex Project_Report_WIP. (BibTeX will look forProject_Report_WIP.auxto find out what it's supposed to do.) – Mico Dec 04 '20 at 20:05