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I'm using \documentclass{book} and trying to get the natbib package generate the bibliography.

I have a root file, say, root.tex and different chapters are included using \include{}. I'm having problems in getting the bibliography to work.

I have the following commands in my root.tex file:

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{mybib}

Any suggestion/solution will be much appreciated!

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Welcome to TeX.sx! Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. – Joseph Wright♦ Dec 11 '11 at 17:02
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To ask the perhaps stupid questions: do you have any cite commands in your text, and do you run pdflatex - bibtex - pdflatex - pdflatex? – Torbjørn T. Dec 11 '11 at 17:06
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Besides adding a MWE, as Joseph has suggested, please describe the problems that you are having. – Gonzalo Medina Dec 11 '11 at 17:06
Other stupid question : do you ask latex to print your bibliography? It seems that you are just telling it to build one, perhaps not to display it. On a side note, what is your point using natbib? I suggest you to use biblatex, which is, in my opinion, much more flexible and powerful. – Martigan Dec 15 '11 at 9:40
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@Martigan \bibliography{mybib} prints the bibliography of cited works. – Torbjørn T. Dec 17 '11 at 20:59

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