I am trying to merge my tex and bib files into one for a journal submission. Somebody suggested to use the bbl file. I am using texmaker / miktex, and bibtex.  I have no idea as to how to actually create bbl file from bib. All the links I found on this website / google don't actually explicitly explain, step by step, how to do this. And I mean step-by-step (since my knowledge of latex  / computing generally is next to nothing). For example, I see instructions "compile"... And I don't know what this means (as to what key on my keyboard I should be pressing).  Thank you.
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I am submitting my first article to ArXiv and in the instructions they specify I have to include the .bbl file. Their instructions are:  "We do not run BibTeX in the auto-TeXing procedure. If you use it, include in your submission the .bbl file that BibTeX produces on your own machine; otherwise your references will not come out correctly. We do not run BibTeX because the .bib database files can be quite large, and the only thing necessary to resolve the references for a given paper is the .bbl file. The name of the .bbl file must match the name of the main .tex file for the system to process the references correctly."  My knowledge of LaTeX is basic, and I have not heard of .bbl file before. I am using TeXmaker. I have my tex file and my bib file. So what do I exactly do to obtain the .bbf file correctly and submit the article?  Thanks a lot!
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I've browsed the forums and found a number of posts that have addressed this issue, but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I have the following script that I just copied from the bibtex home page to get familiar with it. Instead of the citation number I get a question mark. I compile using Latex+Bibtex+Latex+Latex+PDFLatex+ViewPDF just as has been previously suggested and the problem persists.   \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{cite}  \begin{document}  \title{My Article} \author{Nobody Jr.} \date{Today} \maketitle  Blablabla said Nobody ~\cite{Nobody06}.  \bibliography{mybib} \bibliographystyle{plain} \end{document}   My bibliography (Bib.bbl)  @misc{ Nobody06, author = "Nobody Jr", title = "My Article", year = "2006" }    Looking at previous posts one thing that is concerning is that my .bbl looks empty as shown below. Further, I don't have a .blg  \begin{thebibliography}{}  \end{thebibliography}
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I am trying to use bibtex for the first time. I am on windows 7, using TeXstudio. I am trying to follow the steps of .  I have created a .bib file, put it in the right directory and written the code in my .tex file. However, I do not know how to compile bibtex with TeXstudio (I looked around in the menus but didn't find it).   Most tutorials I found don't explain how to do it, or say to run a command, which I'm not sure how to do.  Any help much appreciated!
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Im very new at LaTeX and I would appreciate some help solving this problem. I have created a BibTeX file containing all references to a document. In this text file BibTeX items are inserted and no other text are written, for instance @article{...}. When I call for this bib file from the main.tex file I use the commands:  \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{thebibliography}   Now to my question. All i get when I compile this main.tex is the title (bibliography) for this chapter, otherwise the textfield is blank. Is this error occurring because I should write anything in the bib file or have I missed any lines in the main.tex file.
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I'd like to download automatically tons of papers listed on .bib file so I'm trying to find a way to facilitate the process by, e.g. I import or input to a tool a certain .bib file which contains a list of literature, the output is the literature's .pdf file. Any idea to do so?
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When I have master pdflatex file which includes one or more child documents using something like \include{include/childdoc}, and I call pdflatex on it using pdflatex -output-directory=out parent.tex, I seem unable to find a way of calling bibtex on the resulting parent.aux file.  I have tried both cd out; bibtex parent, and bibtex out/parent, to no avail.  I know there are various build-tools out there, but I'd like first to make it work just from the shell with no special build-tool dependencies.
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Here is a simple document:   \documentclass{article} \usepackage[%   backend      = biber,   bibstyle     = biblatex-sp-unified, ]{biblatex} \addbibresource{test.bib} \begin{document}  \cite{test}  \printbibliography{} \end{document}   Which refers to  and this simple bib file:  @article{test,   Author = {test},   Title = {test} }   This used to work. After updating my MacTeX distribution this Sunday morning and (full disclosure) doing a sudo tlmgr update --all, I now receive errors like the following:   ! Undefined control sequence. &lt;argument&gt; \bbl@main@language  l.12 \printbibliography{                         } ?   Curiously, if either the Author or Title field is missing, I don't get an error. Moreover, if I remove the bibstyle option, the error goes away. This leads me to suspect that the problem is somewhere in the bbx file linked above, but that's as far as my limited knowledge and expertise gets me.   I realize this might be a rather specific question (and I have opened an issue on the github I linked to), but perhaps there is a general issue causing the problem here, in which case others might benefit from a general solution.
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I want to extract specific fields from a natbib/bibtex bibliographic file to construct a table similar to:  title ------------------------------------------------- authors ------------------------------------------------- journal, year, volume ------------------------------------------------- abstract -------------------------------------------------   is there a way to do this in latex?  Thanks Jorge
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As explained , if you need to compile a new document with bibtex citations, then you need to run latex three times, and bibtex once:  latex document bibtex document latex document latex document   Why can't latex figure this out itself, and just do what it needs to do? What is it doing in the later runs that it can't do in the earlier runs?
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I get the following output (terminal output and blg log file) from running biber build/essay. It fails with error code 2 but doesn't give any error message... how helpful! [0] Config.pm:311&gt; INFO - This is Biber 2.16 [0] Config.pm:314&gt; INFO - Logfile is 'build/essay.blg' [120] biber-darwin:340&gt; INFO - === Mon Jan 18, 2021, 04:53:13 [148] Biber.pm:415&gt; INFO - Reading 'build/essay.bcf' [337] Biber.pm:949&gt; INFO - Using all citekeys in bib section 0 [365] Biber.pm:4340&gt; INFO - Processing section 0 [385] Biber.pm:4531&gt; INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'essay.bib' for section 0 [388] bibtex.pm:1689&gt; INFO - LaTeX decoding ... [403] bibtex.pm:1494&gt; INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'essay.bib'  Things used to run fine, but randomly stopped working. Here's my (sample) . Update It seems like the biber run passes when I remmove all numeric fields from the file (e.g., year, volume, number)... odd!
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Running the minimal example  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @ARTICLE{example,   author  = {Other, Anthony Norman},   title   = {Some things I did},   year    = {2014},   journal = {J.~Irrep. Res.},   volume  = {1},   number  = {1},   pages   = {1-10} } \end{filecontents*} \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \addbibresource{\jobname.bib} \begin{document} Hello\cite{example}. \printbibliography \end{document}   I get the warning There were undefined references.  I have read  and know that I need to run:   LaTeX Biber LaTeX   However, my editor is only set up to run BibTeX. How do I go about setting up my editor/IDE to be able to run Biber, and how do I run the LaTeX/Biber/LaTeX cycle?  Answers (sorted alphabetically by editor name)                    Answer guidelines   Each answer should be for one editor. If the editor is cross-platform, if possible give a single answer with notes covering the minor platform variations. Please edit the question to include new answers in the 'link list' Each answer should be 'stand alone', i.e. don't say 'It's almost the same as editor Y but ...' for the editor part Instructions for 'build tools' such as arara or latexmk are welcome but should explain how to set up the editor in question as not all editors allow simple addition of arbitrary tools
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I spent past couple of hours to get citation working on my latex. I am using TexMaker and I tried to compile the document in latex->bibtex -> latex -> latex -> PdfLatex order. However, I only see ? on my outcome pdf file. Could you help me? Thanks !   \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{natbib}   \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib} @article{1,  author = {Mustermann, A. and Mostermann, B. and Mistermann, C},  year = {2011},  title = {Using articles in {\LaTeX} documents},  journal = {Journal} } \end{filecontents}   \begin{document}  \cite{1}\qquad\citet{1}\qquad\citep{1}  \citeyear{1}\qquad\citeauthor{1}  \bibliographystyle{apalike} \bibliography{\jobname} \end{document}
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I'd like to use LaTeX to typeset a novel. Could you recommend me any template?  What I mean is a template (some .tex file) where I can include my chapterN.tex files (mainly plain text) and get a pretty good design with zero work :)
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I am trying to print an entire *.bib file. I would like to print the citation key along with all the entries in the .bib file. I can print my bibligraphic data file (.bib) but cannot get it to print my cite key. I can use BibTeX or biblatex. Any ideas how to do this?  Here is a clearer explanation:  My MCMC.bib file contains:  @ARTICLE{Ait04,   author = {Y. A\"{i}t-Sahalia},   title = {Disentangling Diffusion from Jumps},   journal = {Journal of Financial Economics },   year = {2004},   volume = {74},   pages = {487-528} }  @ARTICLE{Ait02,   author = {Y. A\"{i}t-Sahalia},   title = {Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Discretely-Sampled Diffusions: A Closed-Form Approximation Approach},   journal = {Econometrica },   year = {2002},   volume = {70},   pages = {223-262} }   I use the following LaTeX file:  \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[style=verbose,citestyle=alphabetic,sorting=nty,natbib=true]{biblatex} \bibliography{MCMC} \begin{document} \nocite{*} \printbibliography  \end{document}   I would like the output file to contain the cite keys Ait04 and Ait02 at the start of each citation so that I know what key I have assigned to each citation. Any help would be most appreciated.
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I was constructing a BibTeX file for my Thesis. At the middle of that I had copied that bib file to another document I had to produce, I had to add some new citations to the copy of the original.  Now I have 2 bib files that have a lot in common but differ in some citations. Is there a way to merge them? So that I have one single file with all the citations from both files but no duplicates?
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I am a LaTeX really entusiastic newbie. Thus I am writing all my reports and articles using this wonderful tool. Unfortunately the editors of scientific review do not all have the same entusiasm concerning LaTeX. I plan to submit my future paper in the ICES Journal of Science which (fortunately or not) has a kind of LaTeX template available online () and guidelines available here ().   My main problem is concerning bibliography. In all my writing I use biblatex with in the preamble:  \usepackage[style=authoryear, firstinits=true, uniquename=false, uniquelist=false, maxcitenames=2, maxbibnames=7, backend=biber]{biblatex}.   In the text I call citation using \autocite, \textcite, \citeauthor and \citeyear.   As requested by the journal I tried to convert my bibliography into a \bibitem list. I went to check the .bbl file as advised online but the structure seemed really complicated and nowhere \bibitem was mentionned. I found online some method that I managed to make work in my case by creating a dummy .tex file:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \nocite{*} sdryfj \bibliography{BIB.testbib.bib} \bibliographystyle{plain} \cite{NumR} \end{document}   I run some compilation and got a .bbl file with \bibitems list. I thought I was seeing the end of it and paste this list in thebibliography environment at the end of my document.   Unfortunately all my citations references (\autocite etc..) seems to not be compatible with this different way of bibliography input. In addition, all the references are printed cited or not....  I was wondering if there is a way to reach the same results directly from biber biblatex so I would not have to modify my document too much...  Thank you for your help,  Xochitl C.  PS: I also tried to redefine commands like this but it did not work:  \renewcommand{\autocite}{\cite}  \renewcommand{\citeauthor}{\cite}  \renewcommand{\citeyear}{\cite}  \renewcommand{\textcite}{\cite}
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When you prepare an article for a journal (in my case, Quantum Information and Computation, Rinton Press), often they ask you to use some format for your references; in my case, the following:     [1] R. Calderbank and P. Shor (1996), Good quantum error          correcting codes exist,  Phys. Rev. A, 54, pp. 1098-1106.      [2] M.A. Nielsen and J. Kempe (2001), Separable states   are  more disordered globally than locally, quant-ph/0105090.      [3] A.W. Marshall and I. Olkin (1979), Inequalities:   theory of majorization and its applications, Academic Press (New   York).   The issue is, sometimes (and this is the case) they do not provide a .bst style file for bibtex users. I (and I guess many other people) prefer not to copy all the references of a bibtex file one by one into a tex document. So here is the question I am trying to answer:     What is the easiest way to create a .bst file? (for Rinton or any other publisher)   At first sight, I thought this would be very easy to do: after all, a .bst file is just a mere script to give format to a list. Strangely to me, after a long search I have been unable to find a simple clean solution to this problem. These are the the options I have been looking at:   I have tried to adapt a previous .bst file: concretely, apsrev4-1.bst, which has a similar format. Other people have tried this solution before , . However, it is an ugly option. First, it requires going through the script of the .bst and understanding it. Second, the script format used in different .bst files differs (quite annoyingly), so it is not easy to modify them unless you do understand what's written. The above solution is quite hideous and you really lose time on it, so I was wondering: isn't there any software tool (hopefully with a GUI) that does this job? It should, after all, pretty easy to program for a .bst script expert some sort of program to generate .bst files. There are some related questions in this site asking for something similar , ; there I have seen a couple of proposed apps, but going through their manuals they seem not so easy to use. Isn't there some software tool available to generate a .bst in less than 1 hour of work?   Remarks: ideally I would like to use/personalize/create .bst styles that support eprint fields (e.g. aps4-1.bst).