I am using Overleaf, and when I copied and pasted bibliography from a different project into a new one, I am getting errors and cannot figure out what's wrong. The errors I am getting are all Missing } inserted., Missing $ inserted. or Extra }, or forgotten $. They refer to some lines in the output.bbl file.
My attempt so far: I manually went through process of elimination and narrowed it down to 4 problematic entries. I checked for underscores _ but they are all in the DOI/URL fields, and I tried checking for missing braces }. When I add this new bibliography, I get the errors. I tried adding each of these one by one and they all individually cause errors. I noticed that all of these are @incollection entries.
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-1,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {307--318},
author = {Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and Ronnie B. Wilbur},
title = {{ASL}-Pro: American Sign Language Animation with Prosodic Elements},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-44,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32},
year = {2012},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
pages = {205--212},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Thomas Hanke and John Glauert and Richard Bowden and Annelies Braffort and Christophe Collet and Petros Maragos and Fran{\c{c}}ois Lefebvre-Albaret},
title = {The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf},
booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-45,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3},
year = {2009},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
pages = {21--30},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Christian Vogler and Thomas Hanke and John Glauert and Richard Bowden and Annelies Braffort and Christophe Collet and Petros Maragos and J{'{e}}r{'{e}}mie Segouat},
title = {Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-46,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_33},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_33},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {351--361},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Theodore Goulas and Panos Kakoulidis},
title = {User Friendly Interfaces for Sign Retrieval and Sign Synthesis},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
I checked the .bst file that I have, searched for inproceedings and I found this:
FUNCTION { incollection }
{
output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output % added
output.year.check % added
new.block
format.articletitle "title" output.check
new.block
crossref missing$
{ format.in.ed.booktitle "booktitle" output.check
new.sentence % jtb: start a new sentence for series/volume
format.bvolume output
format.number.series output
new.sentence
publisher "publisher" output.check
address "address" output.check % jtb: require address
format.bookpages output
format.chapter.pages output % gnp - was special.output.nonnull
% left out comma before page numbers
% jtb: moved from before publisher
}
{
format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
format.chapter.pages output
}
if$
fin.block
output.issue.doi.coden.isxn.lccn.url.note
fin.entry
}
FUNCTION { inproceedings }
{
output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output % added
output.year.check % added
new.block
format.articletitle "title" output.check
howpublished output.dot.space
crossref missing$
{
journal missing$ % jtb: proceedings appearing in journals
{ format.in.emphasize.booktitle "booktitle" output.check.dot.space
format.series output.removenospace
format.editors.fml output % BV 2011/09/27 Moved dot to comma
format.bvolume.noseries output
new.sentence
organization output
publisher "publisher" output.check % jtb: require publisher (?)
address "address" output.check % jtb: require address
format.bookpages output
}
{
format.in.booktitle format.city "booktitle" output.check
format.editors.fml output
new.sentence
format.journal.volume.number.day.month.year output
}
if$
format.articleno output
format.pages.check.without.articleno output
}
{
format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
format.articleno output
format.pages.check.without.articleno output
}
if$
format.articleno.numpages output
fin.block
output.issue.doi.coden.isxn.lccn.url.note
fin.entry
}
EDIT: added MWE to reproduce error:
SIGCHI-Reference-Format.bst : https://controlc.com/6d1ed4fb
.tex file:
\begin{filecontents*}{bib.bib}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-1,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {307--318},
author = {Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and Ronnie B. Wilbur},
title = {{ASL}-Pro: American Sign Language Animation with Prosodic Elements},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[letterpaper, 11pt, oneside, openright, draft]{book}
\usepackage{url}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3802/how-to-get-doi-links-in-bibliography#3803
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/forcing-linebreaks-in-url
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage[linktoc=all, pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
pdfdisplaydoctitle=true, % For Accessibility
pdfstartview={FitH}, % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3450/make-pdf-open-in-fill-window-mode-with-hyperref/7251
colorlinks=true,
pdflang={en},
extension=pdf,
plainpages=false,
pdfpagelayout=SinglePage,
bookmarksnumbered,
breaklinks=true,
hypertexnames=true,
citecolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
filecolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
linkcolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
urlcolor=blue,
final % to avoid draft mode for hyperref
}
\usepackage{doi} % this must be loaded AFTER hyperref!
\begin{document}
Testing... Citing \cite{old-nsf-proposal-1}.
\bibliographystyle{SIGCHI-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{bib}
\end{document}
doiorurlfield can interface with theurlorhyperrefpackages in such a way that (normally unsafe) characters like_,$and%work as expected without escaping. It is possible that this only works if you load\usepackage{hyperref}in your preamble as the style may fall back to a more primitive command otherwise. But it is also possible that your style does something else entirely. The code snippet of the.bstfile shown here is not really helpful to investigate this. ... – moewe Feb 15 '22 at 07:07.texfile citing a problematic entry) that reproduces the problem with as little code as possible. If the.bstfile is not available on CTAN, please share a link so we can get hold of the file as well. – moewe Feb 15 '22 at 07:08_will give errors. You could show the generated bbl file. – David Carlisle Feb 15 '22 at 12:37.texfile and linked to the.bstfile – Abraham Feb 15 '22 at 16:44SIGCHI-Reference-Format.bstfrom? There seem to be different versions of this file on the web. Your version uses unsafe code to print the DOI, but another version I found uses safer code. – moewe Feb 15 '22 at 16:51.bstand found https://chi2020.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/ where you can download a template including aSIGCHI-Reference-Format.bst. Unless you have a very good reason to use this specific file, I'd probably stick to a more standard style. – moewe Feb 15 '22 at 19:38