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Using BibTeX with letter class

My goal is to write a letter using the g-brief package including some references using the \cite{} and the \bibliography{} commands. For this, I've written a .bib file which contains the necessary bibtex entries. After compiling the file with latex file.tex the following error message occurs:

! LaTeX Error: Environment thebibliography undefined.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.1 \begin{thebibliography}
                           {}

This is the content of the file:

\documentclass[11pt,ngerman,latin1]{g-brief}

\bibliographystyle{plain}

\begin{document}
\begin{g-brief}

...some text...

\bibliography{bib}{}
\end{g-brief}
\end{document}

I tried to do the following steps without success:

  • including the cite package via \usepackage{cite}
  • to put the \bibligraphystyle{} command inside the document (I think this does not work anyways)
  • to put the \bibligraphy{} command outside the g-brief environment

It would be nice if someone could help with including references in a g-brief.

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Jakob Wenzel
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The class g-brief is outdated.

For a proper letter in German language you should bettter use KOMA-Script and the class scrlttr2. It has many advantages and a very good German description. You can personalise your letters with a lco file containing your personal dates and use this lco file for all your letters.

I've never tried to include a bibliography in scrlttr2 so at the moment I can't say whether it is running or not.

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  • The formatting of my answer here was a bit confusing, so I will give a comment as an answer. – Jakob Wenzel Oct 24 '12 at 15:37
  • Ok. As I cannot answer my own question before 8 hours after asking, I will try to explain my problem here.

    I tried the scrlttr2 documentclass but without success. The first compilation with pdflatex or latex works fine. The bibtex compilation also works fine. But then, by compiling again using pdflatex or latex I get the same error like in my first post.

    So it seems to me that the scrlttr2 documentclass does not help me either. But as g-brief is outdated I will use scrlttr2 in future.

     – Jakob Wenzel Oct 24 '12 at 15:49
  • I tried to indent the code by 4 spaces. But the code was not highlighted and without line breaks. Nevertheless, I hope the text above is enough for the explanaition of my problem. – Jakob Wenzel Oct 24 '12 at 15:55