Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ aarrrh, bibtex is driving me mad!

[Trine]

I have tried to get bibtex up and running for what feels like an eternity...
I want to get my references to look like (author, year)

I have created at .bib file
with content looking like this:

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@Article{Nielsen,
author = {Arne Thorshøj Nielsen and Niels Hemmingsen Schovsbo},
title = {Cambrian to basal Ordovician lithostratigraphy in southern Scandinavia},
journal = {DGF},
year = {2007},
volume = {53},
pages = {47-92},
}

I have included the bibfile in my document where I want it (at the end of the document, after all text)

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\begin{document}

\bibliography{bibliografi}
\end{document}

In my preamble I have tried to do different things, or rather, different packages, but nothing (!!!!) seems to work.

eksample

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\usepackage{authordate1}
\bibliographystyle{authordate1}

I have tried alpha, authordate1, harvard, chicago... and several more

At the moment, when I compile my main document, I says the the authordate1.sty is undefined (excited with errors)
When I compile my BibTeX file, it says "excited with errors" to.

Now, if I exclude the \usepackage command, I can compile the .bib file - no problem, but by compiling the main document, I get

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\udefined control sequence. \cite{Nielsen}

I have also used the package cite in my preamble.

What am I doing wrong?
How can I find out what style options I have? I cannot locate the files in my filesystem.
Is it somthing in TeXmaker I haven't configured right?

In "configure" I have defined the command for BibTex as the "executeable" in usr/bin/bibtex

I really hope anyone can help me. I am working on my bachelor and really need this to work.

Thanks

Trine

[Juanjo]

I provide you a minimal working example to see how this works. Write the following code in a tex file, say, foo.tex:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenx}

\begin{document}

This is my first document with a bibliography generated by
Bib\TeX. Now I cite an article by Nielsen and Schovsbo~\cite{Nielsen}.

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibliografi}

\end{document}

I assume from your post that the bib file is bibliografi.bib. Since you use non-ascii characters, you need to load inputenx. I'm a Mac user, so I do it with the applemac option. You may need a different one (latin1, ansinew, utf8...).
Run LaTeX. Then run BibTeX (there should be a button or menu option in your editor; if not, open a console and type "bibtex foo"). After that, there should be a file called foo.bbl. Run LaTeX again. You will see the bibliography in your document. Run LaTeX once more to get the citation with the correct number.

[Trine]

Thank you for taking your time to look into my problem.

Well that works - no problems at all.
I use

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\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

No error messages, neither when compiling the .bib file, nor the .tex

I still haven't solved the problem with other document. When generating a PDF-output, I can se the citations and bibliography fine, by I stille get the "excited with errors" message.
I could just ignore this message, but I am affraid that it will suddenly crash or somthing, because somthing is obviusly not right.

Trine

[Juanjo]

I still haven't solved the problem with other document. When generating a PDF-output, I can se the citations and bibliography fine, by I stille get the "excited with errors" message.
I could just ignore this message, but I am affraid that it will suddenly crash or somthing, because somthing is obviusly not right.

To solve that problem, you should provide a minimal working example producing the weird message you report. This example should be as short as possible, like mine. Then attach here, possibly compressed in a zip file, the tex and bib files as well as the log and blg files.

[Trine]

Ok, here goes

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

This is my first document with a bibliography generated by
Bib\TeX. Now I cite an article by Nielsen and Schovsbo~\cite{Nielsen}.

\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\bibliography{bibliografi}

\end{document}

I have just changed the style

************** SUMMARY ************** :
line 9 -> ! Undefined control sequence. ...icle by Nielsen and Schovsbo~\cite{Nielsen}
line 3 -> ! Undefined control sequence. ...tename{Nielsen \& Schovsbo, }2007]{Nielsen}
************** LOG FILE *************** :

This is also the message I get in my other document every time I have made a \cite{}

I suppose the problem might be, that I do not have the required package (or packages, as the same happens when I use almost any other style than "plain").
If I change style to e.g. harvard, I get erorrs when compiling .bib file, but not the main .tex file. (.tex fist, then .bib then .tex again)
I am using TeXlive and TeXMaker in Ubuntu 8.04
I do not know how to find out what packages I have available or where to install new ones if I cannot use Synaptic or Add/remove

[Trine]

I have the texlive-bibtex-extra package that should provide me with following:

This package includes the following CTAN packages:
apacite -- Citation style following rules of American Psychological Assoc.
beebe -- TeX-related bibliographies and BibTeX styles.
bibarts -- No caption.
bibhtml -- BibTeX support for HTML files.
biblist -- BibTeX styles by Joachim Schrod.
bibtopic -- Include multiple `by topic' bibliographies in a document.
bibunits -- Multiple bibliographies in one document.
compactbib -- Allows many thebibliography environments with continuous
numbering.
custom-bib -- Customised BibTeX styles.
doipubmed -- The doipubmed package.
elsevier-bib -- The elsevier-bib package.
footbib -- Bibliographic references as footnotes.
harvard -- The Harvard bibliography style family.
harvmac -- Macros for scientific articles.
ijqc -- The ijqc package.
inlinebib -- Inlined \cites.
iopart-num -- Numeric citation style for IOP journals.
jneurosci -- The jneurosci package.
jurabib -- Extended BibTeX citation support for the humanities and legal
texts.
listbib -- Lists contents of bibtex files for archival purposes.
multibib -- Multiple bibliographies within one document.
munich -- The munich package.
perception -- BibTeX style for the journal Perception.
rsc -- The rsc package.
sort-by-letters -- The sort-by-letters package.
urlbst -- Web support for BibTeX.

amongst these is the harvard bibliography style family.
If I use the harvard style, the .bib file is excited with errors

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % definer formatet p din tekst fil
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

This is my first document with a bibliography generated by
Bib\TeX. Now I cite an article by Nielsen and Schovsbo~\cite{Nielsen}.
apalike

\bibliographystyle{harvard}
\bibliography{bibliografi}

\end{document}

the bibfile looks the same as in the earlier given examples.
Log file summary:

************** SUMMARY ************** :
line 9 -> Warning : Citation `Nielsen' on page 1 undefined on input line 9.
line 9 -> Warning : Citation `Nielsen' on page 1 undefined on input line 9.
line 0 -> Warning : There were undefined references.
line 0 -> Warning : There were undefined references.
************** LOG FILE *************** :

[Trine]

well, somtimes it helps to write down ones problems

I figured it out at last

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{harvard}

\begin{document}

This is my first document with a bibliography generated by
Bib\TeX. Now I cite an article by Nielsen and Schovsbo~\cite{Nielsen}.
apalike

\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{bibliografi}

\end{document}

This did the trick!

When I think of all the hours I have spend... Well...
Maybe someone else benefits from my efforts and posts here some other time.
I found a .pdf file on the net, describing how to use the harvard bibliography style family (harvard.pdf)