General ⇒ Problem in creating bibliography

[srikanth_dhondi]

Hi all,

I am trying to create bibliography using bibtex.
When executed I get the an error.
This is what I am doing

latex thesis

bibtex thesis

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.4)
The top-level auxiliary file: thesis.aux
I couldn't open style file seg.bst
---line 2 of file thesis.aux
: \bibstyle{seg
: }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
White space in argument---line 76 of file thesis.aux
: \citation{de
: Gennes}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
Illegal, another \bibstyle command---line 106 of file thesis.aux
: \bibstyle
: {seg}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while reading file thesis.aux
(There were 4 error messages)

Any clues?

Thanks
Srikanth

[Juanjo]

Let's re-read the error messages and try to guess what is happening:

couldn't open style file seg.bst
---line 2 of file thesis.aux
: \bibstyle{seg
: }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command

Somewhere at the beginning of your document there is the comand \bibliographystyle{seg}. BibTeX thinks that instructions to format the bibliography are given in the file seg.bst, so BibTeX tries to find it. But this file does not exist nor it is acessible to BibTeX. Solution: if seg.bst does really exist, put it where BibTeX can find it (for example, in the same folder of the tex file); otherwise, replace seg by any other bibliographic style. For checking purposes, use one of the very standard ones, as plain, unsrt, alpha or abbrv

White space in argument---line 76 of file thesis.aux
: \citation{de
: Gennes}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command

The bib file contains an entry whose label is "de Gennes" (something like @article{de Gennes...) BibTeX complains about the blank space in that label. Suppress it (so the label will be "deGennes"). Modify the \cite commands accordingly.

Illegal, another \bibstyle command---line 106 of file thesis.aux
: \bibstyle
: {seg}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command

The document contains a second \bibliographystyle command. Remove this or the first one. I'd suggest to place that command close to the \bibliography one.

I found no style file---while reading file thesis.aux

BibTeX did not find any bib style file. So the formatting of the bibliography is not possible.

[raynauld]

Hello,

I have had similar problems with bibtex. The answer which worked for me was to have
all the required files in the same folder and if you use Tekmaker you have to go to
"Configuration" and to the line for bibtex you have to remove ".aux" extension.

Good luck to all


JP