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omkardpd
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Creating bibliography

Post by omkardpd »

Hi,

I am trying to create bibliography at the end of a document. The main LaTex document has following commands in the end.

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

I have created another file with reference details and saved as "refs.bib".

However, I have not been able to get the list of references in my main document. The final output PDF gives me the heading "References", but not a list of references.

I am not sure if I am following a correct procedure to create bibliography. May I get some help in this regard?

Thank you,

Omkar

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josephwright
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Re: Creating bibliography

Post by josephwright »

Two things to ask. First, have you got any \cite commands in your LaTeX source? You only get bibliography entries for cited works. Second, have you run latex, then bibtex, then latex and finally latex again? The references are only resolved after running bibtex and latex a second time, and the final latex run is needed to tidy up numbering.
Joseph Wright
omkardpd
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Re: Creating bibliography

Post by omkardpd »

Hi Joseph,

Thank you very much for the reply. Based on the questions in your reply to my starting post, I could resolve the issues.

Regards,

Omkar
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