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I'm have problems with the compiling of my references section in Texmakers.

I'm using Mendely which hosts all my research papers, and now I'm exporting them as a .bib file and storing them in the same folder where my report.tex file is.

Then I put the following lines in Textmaker:

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{mendeleybibfile}

and I hit BibTeX up there in the bar menu

and it returns with the following error:

Process started

Process exited with error(s)

this is a bib code generated from Mendeley:

@book{Lead2007,
author = {Lead, Uber Tech and Intellect, Collective and Engineer, Senior Software},
file = {:home/tropche/Documents/Programming Collective Intelligence.pdf:pdf},
pages = {9 -- 20},
title = {{Programming Collective Intelligence}},
year = {2007}
}
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We would really appreciate some more output from your terminal window. – Andrej Apr 26 '12 at 18:22
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that's the only error message I get in Texmaker – bytebiscuit Apr 26 '12 at 18:32
Well, what you have provided doesn't cause any errors for me, so it looks like you are going to have to investigate further and come back with a minimal example (that reproduces the error you describe) that others can reproduce. FWIW, I'd change '{9 -- 20},' to '{9--20},', but that is not the cause of your problem. – jon Apr 26 '12 at 20:43
Do you have a citation command in your document, i.e. \cite{Lead2007}? Did you compile with pdfLaTeX first, then BibTeX, then pdfLaTeX twice? – Torbjørn T. Apr 27 '12 at 4:34
yes the problem was... that I was compiling using the Texmaker editor. When I compiled the file using command-line it worked great!!! Thanks all for your help! – bytebiscuit Apr 27 '12 at 11:47

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Try the following code:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}  %% This should output the entire bib file
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mendeleybibfile}
\end{document}

This should give you the entire bibliography. This will determine if the bib file is in the correct format, and if all the accesses are correct without the complication of the apa citation style.

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doesn't change anything ! – bytebiscuit Apr 26 '12 at 18:35
any alternative suggestions ! – bytebiscuit Apr 26 '12 at 18:47
The file names are case sensitive, so the file is expected to be named mendeleybibfile.bib – R. Schumacher Apr 27 '12 at 2:24
Suggest that you get the free utility Jabrref and load the bib file and inspect it for correctness. The bibtex process is very sensitive to syntax errors and does not provide many error messages. – R. Schumacher Apr 27 '12 at 2:25
If you have another bib file which has worked in the past the copy it into the same folder and change my code to use that bib file. I also just noticed that the command should have been \nocite NOT \cite (I changed the above code.) – R. Schumacher Apr 27 '12 at 2:29

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