BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Problems with BiBTeX and TexMaker

[whatthebananas]

I'm having difficulty getting my bibliography to appear in my document. I have a .bib file with entries like:

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@BOOK{dens,
    AUTHOR = {B.W. Silverman},
    TITLE = {Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis},
    PUBLISHER = {Chapman and Hall},
    YEAR = {1998},
    ADDRESS = {London}
    }

and I have:

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\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibfile}
\end{document}

but when I compile it all (F1, F11, F1, F1 or F2, F11, F2 F2) no bibliography shows up, and all my citations just come up as question marks. I've tried reading some of the other topics about problems like this but haven't found anything that helps yet. Help??

[whatthebananas]

Also, the log says:

No file finalyearproject.bbl.

and I don't know how to rectify that, but I'm assuming that's where the problem is.

[hamza]

Hello whatthebananas,

I am using Texmaker too and had a similar problem like yours (I was doing pretty much what you did) but after changing my quick build settings to the following it started working:

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latex -interaction=nonstopmode %|latex -interaction=nonstopmode %|bibtex %|latex -interaction=nonstopmode %|latex -interaction=nonstopmode %|yap %.dvi

I had to add a second latex run after the bibtex otherwise it wouldn't work (normally we shouldn't need that, I think)

If it still doesn't work fire up a command prompt and try:

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latex <document>
latex <document>
bibtex <document>
latex <document>
(just as a test) latex <document>

HTH,
Hamza.