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Can anybody simply tell me how should I use BibTeX in TeX Live 2013?
I saved my references in a .bib file and I write the following in my .tex file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{plain}%Choose a bibliograhpic style
%
author~\cite{Meyer2000}.
%
\bibliography{Master}
\end{document}
What I should do afterwards?
I compile it with BibTeX and PDFLaTeX but it does not help.
As Jon has pointed out in his comment.
The correct sequence is:
latex file.tex,bibtex file.aux,latex file.tex,latex file.tex. (Note that the extensions.texand.auxare not strictly necessary, but are implied and thereby used even when you omit them. And of course, you can use any of the following commands in place of latex: latex (produces.dviby default),pdflatex(produceslualatex, orxelatex-- these last two require the use of a slightly different preamble from 'regular' LaTeX.)
To test a bibtex run use example files at http://andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/bibliographies
Download bib.tex and sample.bib to a folder. Run pdflatex bib-> bibtex -> pdflatex bib-> pdflatex bib from that folder with proper sequence to get bib.pdf
Alternatively one can automate the compiling using latexmk and arara
latex file.tex,bibtex file.aux,latex file.tex,latex file.tex. (Note that the extensions.texand.auxare not strictly necessary, but are implied and thereby used even when you omit them. And of course, you can use any of the following commands in place oflatex:latex(produces.dviby default),pdflatex(produces.pdfby default),lualatex, orxelatex-- these last two require the use of a slightly different preamble from 'regular' LaTeX.)pdflatex bib->bibtex->pdflatex bib->pdflatex bibfrom that folder with proper sequence to getbib.pdf