Clash between bibentry and hyperref with bibstyle elsart-harv

Question

I'm using the bibentry package for inserting my bibitems into a CV without printing the bibliography. This works just fine until I load hyperref. Then I get the error message Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment. There is supposed to be a workaround (see here), which I included as deactivated in the code below. When using it, I still get the error message. Is there another solution (no biblatex please) or am I not using the workaround correctly?

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{elvis,
    author = "Elvis Presley",
    title = "Turn Me One More Time",
    publisher = "Jail House Books",
    year = 1963,
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
%\makeatletter
%\let\saved@bibitem\@bibitem
%\makeatother
\usepackage{bibentry}
\nobibliography*
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\bibentry{elvis}
%\bibliographystyle{plain}           % works fine
\bibliographystyle{elsart-harv}     % gives an error
\nobibliography{\jobname}       % comment out when using the workaround
%\begingroup
%\makeatletter
%\let\@bibitem\saved@bibitem
%\nobibliography{\jobname}
%\endgroup
\end{document}

EDIT: Turns out, the problem is not just about bibentry and hyperref. For your convenience I replaced my actual bib-style elsart-harv with plain. It didn't come to my mind that the style could be the crux of this matter, but it obviously is.

Your example (plus workaround) works for me. Try to update your TeX distribution and/or delete all auxiliary files and compile again. — lockstep, Jul 31 '12 at 15:34
You are right. The problem lies at another point. I edited my question accordingly. — meep.meep, Aug 01 '12 at 07:34

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-01T09:20:48.717

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This seems simpler:

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{elvis,
    author = "Elvis Presley",
    title = "Turn Me One More Time",
    publisher = "Jail House Books",
    year = 1963,
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

\usepackage{bibentry}
\makeatletter\let\saved@bibitem\@bibitem\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter\let\@bibitem\saved@bibitem\makeatother

\begin{document}
\nobibliography*
\bibentry{elvis}
\nobibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

The following shows how to integrate elsarticle-harv.bst

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{elvis,
    author = "Elvis Presley",
    title = "Turn Me One More Time",
    publisher = "Jail House Books",
    year = 1963,
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-harv}

\usepackage{bibentry}
\makeatletter\let\saved@bibitem\@bibitem\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter\let\@bibitem\saved@bibitem\makeatother

\begin{document}
\nobibliography*
\bibentry{elvis}
\nobibliography{\jobname}       % comment out when using the workaround
\end{document}

edited Aug 01 '12 at 09:20

answered Jul 31 '12 at 20:01

egreg

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Thanks for your help. This is surely simpler than my given code. Unfortunately, I just realized, the actual problem lies with the bibliographystyle. i edites my question accordingly. – meep.meep Aug 01 '12 at 07:36
@meep.meep The elsarticle-harv.bst style requires the natbib package (I guess that elsart-harv is an obsolete version). I added a working version with the more modern style. – egreg Aug 01 '12 at 09:19
Thanks a lot. Once for calling my attention to the never version and for the solution. I really was a blokhead on this one. I actually know about the need for natbib, but it slipped my mind here. – meep.meep Aug 01 '12 at 10:23
I had a similar problem. I changed the style to plain and I still get the error. pdflatex compiles fine the first time, bibtex compiles fine too. The second time I run pdflatex I get the error. I am using the splitbib package. Any ideas? – fiacobelli Mar 07 '13 at 22:04
@fiacobelli I guess that a new question is in order, with a M(non)WE. – egreg Mar 07 '13 at 22:19
Just came across this myself without an embedded bib file though. I'm new to latex, but what is the actual reason for this bug? To describe a workaround like the document does w/out reason/symptom is not helpful. It was a very frustrating process figuring out why. Are there idiomatic ways to debug such conflicts? Thanks. – nlucaroni Sep 09 '13 at 14:52
@nlucaroni This workaround disables any trick hyperref is doing to \@bibitem, which is redefined by bibentry in a way that seems to displease hyperref. – egreg Sep 09 '13 at 15:27

Clash between bibentry and hyperref with bibstyle elsart-harv

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