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sharp
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Problem: Latex cannot generate \citation{XX} items

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Hi All:
I got a very strange problem when I built my tex file to pdf.
I use 'Latex' command to compile my tex file. After this process, I check generated aux file but cannot find any \citation{XX} items.

I download a sample (a tex file and corresponding bib file) and build them, it is OK!
Then, I copy my paper's content (including configuration header shown in below) to this template and build again, it incurs the same problem - not any citation items! Crazy!


This is my tex file (I delete the irrelevant detail to keep the example short):
\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{usenix,epsfig}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\tile{XXX}
\author{}

\begin{document}
\maketile

\section{XX}

... ...

\section{XX}

{\small
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{meccano}
}
\end{document}
This is meccano.bib file:
@inproceedings{DDS-OSDI,
author = {Steven D. Gribble and Eric A. Brewer and Joseph M. Hellerstein and David Culler},
title = {Scalable, distributed data structures for internet service construction},
booktitle = {OSDI'00: Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design \& Implementation},
year = {2000},
pages = {22--22},
location = {San Diego, California},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
address = {Berkeley, CA, USA},
}
... ...
and this is .aux file:
... ...
\@writefile{toc}{\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}Experience \& Lessons}{11}}
\@writefile{toc}{\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}Related Work}{11}}

/*the citation items should be here, but I cannot see any thing*/
\bibstyle{plain}
\bibdata{meccano}
Thanks!

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localghost
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Problem: Latex cannot generate \citation{XX} items

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sharp wrote:[...] After this process, I check generated aux file but cannot find any \citation{XX} items. [...]
The bibliography will only be shown if you use at least once the \cite command.
sharp wrote:[...] This is my tex file (I delete the irrelevant detail to keep the example short) [...]
A minimal working example (MWE) that shows the problem would have been much better.

Just some hints not related to the problem. Use the graphicx instead of epsfig. It seems that the code of all the samples available from UseNIX is rather outdated.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹
sharp
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Problem: Latex cannot generate \citation{XX} items

Post by sharp »

localghost wrote:
sharp wrote:[...] After this process, I check generated aux file but cannot find any \citation{XX} items. [...]
The bibliography will only be shown if you use at least once the \cite command.
sharp wrote:[...] This is my tex file (I delete the irrelevant detail to keep the example short) [...]
A minimal working example (MWE) that shows the problem would have been much better.

Just some hints not related to the problem. Use the graphicx instead of epsfig. It seems that the code of all the samples available from UseNIX is rather outdated.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

Much Thanks! localghost! :-)
It is OK now! And I am trying to write tex document in MWE fasion ;)

BTW: My usenix sample is USENIX '05, I only find this version from usenix offical website.
Is there any newer version?
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