[So I am new to LaTex. I am self taught, so I apologize ahead of time if I am difficult to work with.]
I am trying to write a paper for a class, and I'd like to cite my sources using a bib file. I am able to do the basics, but for some reason my TeX studio will not compile my document. It appears to stop near the top, at the " \begin{document}" line, and I cannot figure out why. Here is what I have:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[
backend=bibtex,
style=alphabetic,
sorting=nyt,
]{biblatex}
\bibliography{wage.bib}
\title{title}
\author{name}
\date{date}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
... [content]
\printbibliography[title=Works Cited]
\end{document}
I keep getting an error that says "! File ended while scanning use of \field", with the "begin document" line highlighted in red. Here is my bib file:
@article{poverty,
author = "John Addison and Mickinley Blackburn",
title = "Minimum Wages and Poverty",
journal = "Industrial Labor Relations Review",
volume = "52",
number = "3",
pages = "891--921",
year = "1999",
}
@article{realwage,
author = "Orley Ashenfelter",
title = "Comparing Real Wage Rates",
journal = "American Economic Association",
volume = "102",
number = "2",
pages = "891--921",
year = "2012",
}
@article{hours,
author = "Kenneth Couch and David Wittenburg",
title = "The Resposne of Hours of Work to Increase in the Minimum Wage",
journal = "Southern Economic Journal",
volume = "68",
number = "1",
pages = "891--921",
year = "2001",
}
@article{profits,
author = "Mirko Draca and Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen",
title = "Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability",
journal = "American Economic Association",
volume = "3",
number = "1",
pages = "891--921",
year = "2011",
}
@article{ninefity,
author = "Joseph Sabia and RIchard Burkenhauser",
title = "Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a 9.50 Federal Minimum IWage Really Help the Working Poor?",
journal = "Southern Economic Journal",
volume = "76",
number = "3",
pages = "891--921",
year = "2010",
}
@article{politics,
author = "Russell Sobel",
title = "Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage",
journal = "Journal of Political Economy",
volume = "107",
number = "4",
pages = "891--921",
year = "1999",
}
It was not too long ago when I was able to compile this document just fine. This trouble started when I copy and pasted some sources (in fact, the last two sources of my bib file) into the bib file. I discovered that they had the braces on, instead of the quotations. But after correcting this my document still won't print. This is very frustrating. I've plaid around with the biber / bibtex option, to no avail ; I have read somewhere that I need to change the compiling order under Options - Configure TeX - Build - Default Compiler, but I do not quite understand what this option is, nor does it appear to be doing much.
In addition, when I had a bibliography, I noticed that the bibliography would only print the things I cited within the paper, instead of all of the sources actually listed in my bib file. This was also frustrating.
To summarize, I just want to print/compile this document, with all of the sources in my bib file appearing, in alphabetical order. The contents of the paper is already prepared, it is just the compiling that I am having issue with.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
biberif you specify that backend orbibtexif you specify that one. Braces work fine in.bibfiles. I only ever use braces. I call them curly brackets, but that's just me.ninefitycontains at least two small typos. See also Using BibTeX to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document?. The\fielderror is not something we can replicate with the code you have given. Either it is not present any more and can be gotten rid of by deleting temporary (.aux,.bbl,.bcf) files and recompiling, or it lies with other.bibentries we can't see. Note that braces instead of quotation marks are valid, if done right.