bibtex issue : Warning--I didn't find a database entry for “birks”

Question

I'm having an issue using bibtex with pdflatex. Here is the file biblio.bib I'm using (with this exact format) :

@Book{physiqueNucleaire,
author = "Claude le Sech and Christian Ngô",
title = "Physique Nucléaire, des Quarks aux Applications",
year = "2010",
publisher = "Dunod"}

@Book{birks,
author = "J.B. Birks",
title = "The theory and Practice of Scintillation Counting",
year = "1964",
publisher = "Pergamon Presse Ltd."}

In the list of packages (at the beginning of the main file report.tex) :

\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}

And the main file section where the bibliography is "called" :

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\bibliography{biblio}

In a chapter file defined before this last section, I use the \cite{physiqueNucleaire} command and it works perfectly. In an another chapter file, I use the \cite{birks} command, and the bibtex compiler (if this makes any sense) respond :

Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "birks"

I am aware I need to call the different latex commands in this order, and I tried it without any success :

pdflatex report.tex
bibtex report.tex
pdflatex report.tex
pdflatex report.tex

I also tried to delete all the files generated through the compilations (at least all the files contained in the .tex file folder - are there any elsewhere ?)

Are there rules or specific places where we can call the \cite{} command ? How much rigorous is the format in the .bib file needs to be ?

I already used Latex before exactly the same way and it worked succesfully, could this have something to do with the environnement ? I "migrated" from ubuntu 11.04 and gedit with the Latex plugin to KUbuntu 11.04 using kate.

Any help will be rewarded with a virtual hug,

Mortuis

Answer 1

The error may be caused by something else in your text. I tried this short example:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\cite{physiqueNucleaire}
\cite{birks}

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}

with your two references in the bib file and it compiled w/o a problem.