\bibentry does not display reference using beamer

Question

I use the beamer documentclass and it does not typeset a bibentry.

I have found some related answers but none of them is exactly my situation:

thebibliography do not display references inside braces [ ]

My code is:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\usepackage{url}
\author{Joe Smith \ Famous University}
\date{February 2022}
\title{Clickbait title}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{frame}[fragile]{The starting point}
\begin{quote}
\bibentry{Famous-Author-Famous-Paper}
\end{quote}
\end{frame}
\nobibliography{../../../MyBibliography}
\end{document}

The starting point slide contains only the title. The cc.bbl file does contain the bibliographical entry, so bibtex has found it in my bib file. My Makefile is:

all:        cc.tex
            xelatex cc
            bibtex cc
            xelatex cc
            xelatex cc
clean:
            rm cc.{aux,bbl,blg,log,out,pdf}

What does cause this non-typesetting and how can I overcome this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '22 at 14:22

You can avoid the empty extra slide at the beginning if you place \nobibliography inside of a frame environment, e.g.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\usepackage{url}
\author{Joe Smith \ Famous University}
\date{February 2022}
\title{Clickbait title}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\nobibliography{../../../MyBibliography}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]{The starting point}
\begin{quote}
\bibentry{Famous-Author-Famous-Paper}
\end{quote}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '22 at 11:19

Interestingly, if I put the \nobibliography command between \begin{document} and \maketitle, xelatex does typeset the reference, although it creates an empty slide at the beginning:

\begin{document}
\nobibliography{../../../MyBibliography}
\maketitle

\bibentry does not display reference using beamer

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