BibTeX and Jabref

Question

I have a bib file in Jabref. Once the .tex file is compiled, the bibliography section appears but it is all empty.

Here is an example of my .tex file:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,11pt]{book} 

\usepackage[english, french]{babel}
\usepackage[super]{natbib}


\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\bibliography{Bibpap3}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

\end{document}

Any insights ?

You seem to have no citations: do you have any in the real case? Did you run LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, LaTeX? — Joseph Wright, Oct 28 '12 at 15:28
I am a very beginner in Latex. I did not at all use the \cite in the text, so there is no citation using Jabref referecing, but I cite without linking to the reference. Should i use cite to make it work ? Second, how can I run LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, LaTeX?
Sorry for trivial questions

Thanks — Irene, Oct 28 '12 at 15:30
Welcome to TeX.sx! Your code is not a minimal working example (MWE), please see I've just been told I have to write a minimal example, what is that?. Most of the packages can removed here for our test case. I do not know Jabref, but I think, you need to create a bib file first, what then must picked up by some LaTeX code. This is surely not related to TeXnicCenter. — Speravir, Oct 28 '12 at 15:44

Joseph Wright · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-28T15:48:18.170

JabRef is a program for managing BibTeX database (.bib) files but does not directly affect what happens in LaTeX. Adding a database to a .tex file does not add in the citations. You need either \cite or \nocite: the latter adds references to the bibliography without a citation in the text

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{demo1,
  author = {Other, A. N.},
  journal = {J. Irrep. Res.},
  title = {Some things we did},
  year  = {2012},
}
@article{demo2,
  author = {Nobacon, D.},
  journal = {J. Chumb.},
  title = {Tubthumping},
  year  = {2012},
}
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[super]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\begin{document}
Some text \cite{demo1} more text\nocite{demo2}.
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

You will need to run LaTeX, then BibTeX, then LaTeX twice for the document to be complete.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 21:32

1

One additional source of this error is if you are citing multiple authors in one block, there can be no white-space between the authors.

This works:

\cite{smith2004,smith2005}

This does not work

\cite{smith2004, smith2005}

answered Jan 30 '14 at 21:32

Sarobinson

11

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 28 '12 at 15:47

1

To run BibTeX just follow the image below.

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answered Oct 28 '12 at 15:47

Sigur

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