Wondering why the reference
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Reference}
does not appear in my pdf when I compile it?
Any help appreciated.
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2You've provided no useful details in your post. How do you expect anyone to be able to answer without them? Mind-reading? Throwing out wild guesses hoping one sticks? If you want help here, you need to provide details. See How to Ask and [mcve].– Ken WhiteOct 27, 2017 at 16:29
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you need to run bibtex to generate a bibliography– David CarlisleOct 27, 2017 at 19:49
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To discuss the situation we need a minimal working example (MWE) you did not add to your question. Let us start with the following one, copy it to your computer and name it mwe.tex:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Goossens,
author = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and
Samarin, Alexander},
title = {The LaTeX Companion},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
location = {Reading, Mass.},
year = {1994},
}
@Book{adams,
title = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
author = {Douglas Adams},
series = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
year = {1980},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
Text~\cite{adams} % citing one bib entry % <============================
\nocite{*} % all not cited bib entrys are shown in bibliography ...
\bibliographystyle{plain} % <===========================================
\bibliography{\jobname} % to use file created by filecontents ...
\end{document}
Package filecontents is only used to have a bib file and the TeX code together in one compilable MWE.
To get a printed bibliography you need \cite{key} to cite the bib entry key, like:
Text~\cite{adams} % citing one bib entry % <============================
or use \nocite{*} to get all not cited bib entrys printed in your bibliography.
The bibliography style plain defines the layout of the printed bibliography.
\nocite{*} % all not cited bib entrys are shown in bibliography ...
To get the MWE compiled you need to follow the compiling chain (open your terminal/console and type the following commands):
pdflatex mwe.tex
to compile mwe.tex and get file mwe.aux we need for the next step:
bibtex mwe.aux
which results in a file mwe.bbl containing the bibliography. Now type
pdflatex mwe.tex
pdflatex mwe.tex
to get the final document like this:
Check the documentation of your used editor how to start pdflatex and bibtex with it.
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Why are you answering the same unclear questions again and again and again? Before it is even clear where tge provlem is? Oct 28, 2017 at 6:09
How does your Reference.bib looks like?
\bibliography{Reference}
Imports the BibTeX file "Reference.bib" to display the bibliography.
To import several .bib files just write them comma-separated inside
the braces, the file extension is not necessary.
example:
@article{einstein,
author = "Albert Einstein",
title = "{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. ({German})
[{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]",
journal = "Annalen der Physik",
volume = "322",
number = "10",
pages = "891--921",
year = "1905",
DOI = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004"
}
run bibtex:
pdflatex document.tex
bibtex Reference
pdflatex document.tex
pdflatex document.tex
references:
https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Bibliography_management_with_bibtex https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/bibtex
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I've copied that code and pasted it into a TeX document but there is still no reference– TheSimpliFireOct 27, 2017 at 16:31
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2@TheSimpliFire -- that code isn't meant to be pasted into a tex document. it consists of four commands to be processed from the command line. Oct 27, 2017 at 21:18