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Hey I am completely lost. Despite me going to several websites and copying their commands directly, my LaTeX document refuses to generate either the citation or bibliography entry. Here is the LaTeX.

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}

\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage{qtree}

\usepackage{natbib}

\usepackage{cite}

\geometry{a4paper}

\title{Nominals of Modern Greek (Abstract)}

\author{Dingler, Ian}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Important to note, is that if their are no other items in the lexical phrase, the D must appear to the left side of N i.e. *\textit{podia ta}, \citet{MG21}.

\bibliographystyle{te}

\bibliography{Syn3 Ref}

\end{document}

Here is my bib entry saved as "Syn3 Ref"

@book{MG21,

       auTHor = {Brian D. Joseph and Irene Philippaki-Warburton},

       YEAR = {1987},

       Title = {Modern Greek},

       publisher = {Biddles Ltd, Guilford and Kin'gs Lynn},

       address = {Great Britain}
     }

Both my .tex and .bib files are saved in the same folder yet all I get when I typeset is a ? where my citation should be and no bibliography entry what so ever.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 18:26

1 Answer 1

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To get the bibliography, you need to run BibTeX. Example for a calling sequence:

pdflatex test
bibtex test
pdflatex test
pdflatex test

The BibTeX run will fail because of two problems:

$ bibtex test
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2014)
The top-level auxiliary file: test.aux
I couldn't open style file te.bst
---line 3 of file test.aux
 : \bibstyle{te
 :             }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
White space in argument---line 4 of file test.aux
 : \bibdata{Syn3
 :               Ref}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no database files---while reading file test.aux
I found no style file---while reading file test.aux
(There were 4 error messages)
  1. The bibliography style te is not known (at least in my system te.bst is missing). The example below uses one of the many bibliography styles, replace it to your needs.

  2. BibTeX does not like spaces in the file name for the .bib file. For example, rename Syn3 Ref.bib to Syn3Ref.bib.

Full example:

\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}

\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{qtree}
\usepackage{natbib}
% \usepackage{cite}  
\geometry{a4paper}

\title{Nominals of Modern Greek (Abstract)}
\author{Dingler, Ian}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Important to note, is that if their are no other items in the lexical
phrase, the D must appear to the left side of N i.e. *\textit{podia ta},
\citet{MG21}.

\bibliographystyle{dinat}
\bibliography{Syn3Ref}

\end{document}

Result

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  • Something must still be wrong. I tried running your text in a separate window and it still gave me the same output. Is it an issue with me not running BibTex?
    – dHav0k
    Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 18:53
  • One shouldn't load both cite and natbib.
    – Mico
    Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 18:54
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    @IanDingler Have you renamed the .bib file without spaces in the file name (also the file name needs to be changed in the .tex file accordingly)? Have you run the whole sequence given in the answer (pdflatex and bibtex runs)? Do you get error messages? Which ones? Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 18:58
  • Yes I tried removing the spaces from the .bib and .tex file as well as the cite package. I copied and pasted the answer into its own window and still get the same output. I do not get any error messages when I try typsetting though. What do you mean by "run bibtex"? Should I be using the calling sequence in the answer to do some kind of test? I have a separate program BibDesk in which I have also made an entry. Should this help?
    – dHav0k
    Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 19:11
  • @IanDingler The answer assumes, the TeX file is called test.tex. Then in a command window (koncole, dos prompt, ...) the commands pdflatex test, bibtex test, pdflatex test, and pdflatex test need to be executed. Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 19:23

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