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I have the following bibtex entry: 

@TechReport{CAlt2,
  author =   {G. Ziegenhals},
  title =    {{U}ntersuchungen zur {W}irkung eines {A}lternativgriffes c2 bei {O}boen},
  institution =  {IfM - Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau e.V.},
  year =     {2015},
  number =   {IfM M 285/2015 - Fassung 2},
  address =      {IfM - Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau e.V. 
Klingenthaler Stra\ss{}e 42 08267 Klingenthal},
  month =    {6}
}

Bibtex complains: 
Warning--empty note in CAlt2
Warning--there's an address but no publisher in CAlt2

Ok but note is optional for techreport and I do have a publisher... or isn't publisher=institution??

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  • Normally, the publisher is the company or the printing house, being responsible for distribution. The institution might be a science department, an organization etc. In general, those are not equal, in my point of view
    – user31729
    Commented Aug 6, 2015 at 20:40
  • Bibtex does not treat them as equal as far as I know. And address is the address of the publisher so it makes no sense to have the first without the second. Don't know why it would complain about an empty note, though. It could be the style you are using - it might not be optional for that style, even if it is generally optional with the standard styles. But without a minimal working document we can compile which shows what you are doing, this is only a guess. (And seems somewhat unlikely to me.)
    – cfr
    Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 0:01
  • I tried running BibTeX on a .bib file with your given entry and it produces no errors. I think without more details (for instance, which bibliography style you are using) it's not possible to resolve this.
    – The Amplitwist
    Commented Jul 2, 2021 at 14:39

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I know it has been very long since the question was asked, but I faced the same problem, I solved it by doing the following:

  • address means the location where the conference took place.
  • publisher is such as ACM, IEEE, etc.

Let me share with you this example from ACM template, that explains the different fields.

@inproceedings{Hagerup1993,
title        = {Maintaining Discrete Probability Distributions Optimally},
author       = {Hagerup, Torben and Mehlhorn, Kurt and Munro, J. Ian},
booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming},
series       = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume       = {700},
pages        = {253--264},
year         = {1993},
publisher    = {Springer-Verlag},
address      = {Berlin},
}
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  • The question in the OP is about the techreport entry, but you are discussing the inproceedings entry in your answer. It is not clear to me that your answer solves the OP's problem.
    – The Amplitwist
    Commented Jul 2, 2021 at 14:15
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    @TheAmplitwist the problem has nothing to do with "techreport" the main issue is that the latex was flagging the bib entry with the error that one of the entries are missing. That was the exact issue I faced and that is why I ended up in this question and thought of sharing my answer when I resolved it.
    – x mohd
    Commented Jul 3, 2021 at 15:14
  • Thanks for responding! I still don't see what you have done that specifically solves the issue.
    – The Amplitwist
    Commented Jul 3, 2021 at 15:46

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