apacite bibliography{} command not creating bibliography

Question

Please excuse me, I'm quite new to LaTeX (and I'm inexperienced with formal formatting to boot). I'm having a problem that I don't know how to solve, and haven't been able to find anything online. Therefore I'm forced to ask the good people of stackexchange.

I have a file mybib.bib which contains (among others) the following reference:

@Book{hwbible,
ALTauthor = {Winn Rosch},
ALTeditor = {•},
title = {The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible},
publisher = {Brady},
year = {1989},
}

The inline citations work as expected, but the bibliography does not. It does not actually spit out a bibliography; rather it only spits out the references instead. This is the only output from the command \bibliography{mybib}

Extra info: I have the following lines near the beginning of the .tex file:

\usepackage{apacite}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

Does anyone know what I am supposed to do?

Answer 1

The problem with the bibtex record provided is that the field ALTauthor and ALTeditor are not recognised fields. Some bibtex templates provide the form with ALTauthor ALTeditor with the understanding that only one the two fields should be present and the ALT part should be removed. Thus for the example, the entry should look like:

@Book{hwbible,
author = {Winn Rosch},
title = {The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible},
publisher = {Brady},
year = {1989},
}