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I am trying to use BibTeX for references. Here is my code.

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article} 
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}     
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\usepackage{cite}

\title{Draft Project Laser Bubbles}
\author{PTB} 
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\abstract{
Optofluidics
}

\section{Theory}

Blablabla said Nobody ~\cite{Nobody06}.

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybib}{}

\end{document}

And mybib.bib in the same folder:

@article{Nobody06,
  author = "Nobody Jr",
  title = "My Article",
  year = "2006"
}

@article{mrx05,  
author = "Mr. X", 
Title = {Something Great}, 
publisher = "nob" # "ody"}, 
YEAR = 2005, 
}

Error message:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
The top-level auxiliary file: Project-PTB-Draft.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: mybib.bib
Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "Nobody06"
(There was 1 warning)

I have tried latex bibtex latex latex (it is my Quick Build at the moment). Any ideas? :)

First problem found: mybib.bib was in the wrong folder. facepalm. Put it in the right folder and it still doesn't work. The current error message:

Process started

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9) The top-level auxiliary file: Project-PTB-Draft.aux The style file: plain.bst Database file #1: mybib.bib You're missing an entry type---line 1 of file mybib.bib : @ :

Process exited normally

EDIT:

I fixed it! I deleted the old .bib file and made a new one in texmaker. Then it worked!

I guess an encoding problem or something :)

Thanks guys!

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  • Hi! Are you calling bibtex mybib or bibtex mytexfile? Because the first way doesn't work, you have to go the second way.
    – yo'
    Oct 24, 2013 at 12:28
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    When I do the standard calls (see @tohecz) the MWE compiles without any errors.
    – Ruben
    Oct 24, 2013 at 12:32
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    For me the code above compiles without problems (in PDFLaTeX).
    – Chris
    Oct 24, 2013 at 12:32
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    @Guido I actually start to doubt that this is the problem. Because the log output from bibtex shows that the call is correct. I more think that PetterTB has a typo his the real document somewhere (for instance mismatched upper/lowercase)
    – yo'
    Oct 24, 2013 at 12:44
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    There is an unbalanced brace } in the publisher of the second item, the bibliography command should be just \bibliography{mybib} without the extra {}. Otherwise the posted code compiles fine, just that bibtex warns "Warning--empty journal in Nobody06".
    – Andrew Swann
    Oct 24, 2013 at 13:00

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As tohecz said you have to use the following commands to compile your file:

latex texfile
bibtex texfile
latex texfile
latex texfile
pdflatex texfile

where texfile is your file with LaTeX code. If I run your files with these commands it compiles perfectly.

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  • This clearly does not answer the question if you analyze it carefully ;)
    – yo'
    Oct 24, 2013 at 14:27

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