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In my .tex document I have

[...]
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{bibliografie}

\end{document}

And I have the bibliografie.bib file in the same folder. However, why the bibliography does not appear at the end of the document? And bibliografie.bib contains the following:

@BOOK{texbook,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   title= "The {{\TeX}book}",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1984
   }

@BOOK{latexbook,
   author = "Leslie Lamport",
   title = "{\LaTeX \rm:} {A} Document Preparation System",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1986
   }
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It's not necessary to sign your questions (as there is already a box with your username below it) or to begin them with a greeting. – Thorsten May 7 '11 at 9:24
maybe i'm missing something, but unless the system you're using is set up to run bibtex automatically, the absence of a .bbl file will mean that there is nothing for latex to read, and therefore no bibliography will ever appear in your document. – barbara beeton May 7 '11 at 13:37
Are you (qwerty) processing your document through bibtex? You need to compile your file (let's call it test.tex) in the following way: pdflatex test, bibtex test, pdflatex test, and pdflatex test. – Gonzalo Medina May 7 '11 at 19:53

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The following minimal example works well. 

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{bibliografie.bib}
@BOOK{texbook,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   title= "The {{\TeX}book}",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1984
   }

@BOOK{latexbook,
   author = "Leslie Lamport",
   title = "{\LaTeX \rm:} {A} Document Preparation System",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1986
   }

\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[english]{amsbook}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\Blinddocument
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{bibliografie}
\end{document}

Please learn how to create a minimal example.

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Marco, but that code where should be placed? all the code is in a .tex file, or..? – qwerty May 7 '11 at 9:52
The part between \begin{filecontents*}{bibliografie.bib} and \end{filecontents*} will be written in a file called bibliografie.bib when you run the code Marco posted. The other part is a simple .tex file. – Thorsten May 7 '11 at 9:55
@qwerty: the bib-file will create in the same folder. I can also split the code and after this I can use input or include. The result doesn't change. What problem do you have? – Marco Daniel May 7 '11 at 9:56
And \RequirePackage{filecontents} where should be placed? – qwerty May 7 '11 at 9:57
Ok, i've split the code, so in my .bib file i have The part between \begin{filecontents*}{bibliografie.bib} and \end{filecontents*} and the other in the .tex file, but the bibliography is still not shown.. – qwerty May 7 '11 at 10:04
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As far as I am aware, you have to include some other content (in this case an invisible \mbox).

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\mbox{}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{amsplain}
\bibliography{bibliografie}
\end{document}
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I don't think that this is true – Thorsten May 7 '11 at 9:31
@Thorsten Maybe not, but it does not work without the \mbox so it is a quick solution. It says that biblio.bbl and biblio.aux are missing which is logical, because the first run on the biblio.tex file tries to compile an empty document. – Harold Cavendish May 7 '11 at 9:38
@Harald: But where do you have a problem? The compilation of an empty document (first compilation) isn't an error. – Marco Daniel May 7 '11 at 9:44
It just says No File ... .aux and No File ... .bbl which cannot be considered as an error. – Thorsten May 7 '11 at 9:47
@Thorsten Yes, you are right. I have made a wrong assumption, sorry. Nevertheless, my solution works and I am eager to know what causes the problem. – Harold Cavendish May 7 '11 at 10:01

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