BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Miktex+Texmaker+Bibtex=giving me a hard time

[albinoblacksheep]

Hi all!

I am new to the forum and after searching for a solution for my problem - both on the www and here in the forum - I still cannot figure it out, so I hoped you could help me.
I read all the instructions on what to do before you post, but since my English is not perfect and I am an absolute newby with Latex, I didn't understand everything required, so please forgive me any mistakes.

I am using Texmaker 1.9.1 and Miktex 2.7 on Win XP. I want to handle my bibliography with Bibtex - but somehow I cannot find how to do that, since it does not add the bibliography to the end of the document nor does it find my citations (instead it puts a [?] and puts out the warning: Citation 'first' on page 1 undefined

Here is a MWE. I have the files MWE.tex and MWE.bib. When I run the sequence PDFLaTeX,Bibtex,PDFLaTeX,PDFLaTeX, then no citations work. There is no MWE.bbl file created.
When I try to run LaTeX instead of PDFLaTeX then I get an error: ! Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!


here the .tex file:

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\documentclass[a4paper,bibtotoc,oneside]{scrbook} 

\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel} 

\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts,amstext}


\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

\setlength{\textheight}{225mm}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} %uncomment this to not display all the subsubsections in the
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}    %table of contents
 
\begin{document}


\newpage



\tableofcontents\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage

\setcounter{page}{1}
\chapter{Introduction}
Itse me, mario! \cite{first}

\newpage
\bibliographystyle{abstract}
\bibliography{MWA}

\end{document}

and here the .bib file:

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@article{first,
		key						={},
		author				={Kurt G{\"o}del},
		title					={{\"U}ber formal unentscheidbare {S}{\"a}tze der {P}rincipia {M}athematica und verwandter {S}ysteme {I}}},
		booktitle			={},
    chapter				={},
	 	edition				={},
    editor				={},
    howpublished	={},
    institution		={},
    journal				={Monatshefte f{\"u}r Mathematik und Physik},
    month					={},
    note					={},
    number				={},
    organization	={},
    pages					={173--198},
    publisher			={},
		address				={},
    school				={},
    series				={},
    type					={},
    volume				={38},
    year					={1931},
}

Since I get no errors and the pdf is produced, I assume that all the pathways/adresses to the different .exe files are correct (eg. "C:/Programme/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/pdflatex.exe" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex"
Please help me to find the proper settings and ways to use Bibtex for my literature management. Thank you very much!
Cheers, Sebastian

[frabjous]

The bib file has an extra }

The line:

title = {{\"U}ber formal unentscheidbare {S}{\"a}tze der {P}rincipia {M}athematica und verwandter {S}ysteme {I}}},

should be

title = {{\"U}ber formal unentscheidbare {S}{\"a}tze der {P}rincipia {M}athematica und verwandter {S}ysteme {I}},

The MWE otherwise works perfectly well for me when compiling pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex.

If you want it to work when compiling with latex, change:

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

to simply:

\usepackage{graphicx}

(Actually, I'd change that anyway. There's no need for the option there.)

If you still have problems with these changes, insert \lisftfiles into the code, and upload the .log file here.

[albinoblacksheep]

Hi frabjous,

thank you for your very quick reply!
Unfortunately it did not bring the wanted success I still get the same result.

I added \listfiles to the document, the log file produced is:

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entering extended mode
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Chapter 1.

LaTeX Warning: Citation `first' on page 1 undefined on input line 31.

[1

] (MWE.bbl) (MWE.aux)

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LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

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this is the .aux file created:

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\relax 
\select@language{english}
\@writefile{toc}{\select@language{english}}
\@writefile{lof}{\select@language{english}}
\@writefile{lot}{\select@language{english}}
\citation{first}
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\bibstyle{abstract}
\bibdata{MWA}

However, a small success can be reported: LaTeX works now
I hope you find the problem,
thank you very much for your effort!
Cheers

[frabjous]

You should probably do something about that warning about the bibtotoc option -- such as remove it, but I don't think that's the problem here.

You said it's not producing a .bbl file? Is it producing a .blg file? If so, can you post that here?

Does Texmaker report anything funny when you run Bibtex?

As I said, it works for me. (Resulting PDF is attached.)

[albinoblacksheep]

Hmmm...

I removed the bibtotoc - no improvement, except the warning is gone.
There is a .blg file created, looks suspicious:

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This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: MWE.aux
I couldn't open style file abstract.bst
---line 10 of file MWE.aux
 : \bibstyle{abstract
 :                   }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while reading file MWE.aux
(There were 2 error messages)

Am I missing a folder with some style infos here or something like this?

Maybe its a really stupid beginners mistake, so I will describe you briefly what I am doing when compiling:
1) open the .tex
2) open the .bbl in a second tab
3) select the .tex tab and run pdflatex
4) select the .bbl tab and run bibtex
5) repeat 3) twice.
Is that correct so?

[frabjous]

You're missing the file abstract.bst -- which is a bibliography style file. Yeah, it can't generate a bibliography without it.

I believe this is part of the bibtools package. Try (re)installing that package through the MikTeX package manager.

(I don't know much about Texmaker--don't use it. But I don't think switching tabs should be necessary. Running pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex, all from the .tex file tab should do it. But of course you need all the files it calls upon.)

[albinoblacksheep]

Thanks so much!

I re-installed miktex, updated to the newer version 2.8 - but still didnt work.
But in the Bibtex folder I found that tha plain.bst existed, so I changed \bibliographystyle{abstract} to \bibliographystyle{plain} and now it works. Will search for the abstract one tomorrow, now its time for bed, here in Europe!

Thanks again
Sebastian