BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ reference item is missing

[upani1982]

Hi All,

This is Upananda from India. I am a new member of this group .I am new to the Latex world. I am learning for the first time. I want to use harvard style reference in my thesis. When i have created .bib file and after citing the study, the cited itm is not not coming under the reference.

I am using mikitex 2.8.


Please help me.

Thanks and Regards,
Upananda

LaTeX2.tex

this is my .tex file

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referen.bib

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[josephwright]

You don't have any \cite commands. You need to \cite references for them to appear.

[upani1982]

Hi Joseph,
Thanx for your reply. I have already cited at the end of the paragraph.\cite{Karande,2006}. Infact i want my citations as (Karande,2006). I am confused how to use commands for this.

I have switched over ubuntu now and using latex.

Waiting for your reply

Regards,
Upananda

[josephwright]

Oops, sorry: the long line caught me out. Did you run LaTeX, the BibTeX, then LaTeX again twice?

[upani1982]

Hi Joseph,

How to do that in mikitex ? In this case when i am running bibtexfile then i am getting so many errors. is there any other way to write bib file (i.e any code in the beginning and end). In mikitex the option is Latex to dvi or latex to ps or latex to pdf.

With Sincere Regards,
Upananda

[josephwright]

MiKTeX is a TeX system, not an editor. Most people use a specialist TeX editor, and these editors include "wrappers" for the process you need to do. So the exact commands you need depend on the editor, although you can do things "by hand" as well.

MiKTeX 2.8 comes bundled with the TeXworks editor. If you open your file in TeXworks, there will be a green button in teh top-left with a drop down list next to it. Choosing "pdfLaTeX + MakeIndex + BibTeX" and then pressing the green button should do everything in one go. I don't get any errors with your example file.

[upani1982]

Hi Joseph,

Thanks again for your help. I got the solution by changing my editor to Winedit. When i run the same .tex file in this editor. I am getting the output. But earlier i was using texnic cnter for my editing there seems some problem. Anyway form nowonwards i will be using winedit for my thesis. Could you please give me some best website explaining the commands for structuring the document (i.e section, subsection and conscusion ).

Regards,
Upananda

[josephwright]

For basic introductions, take a look at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2htm ... =man-latex. I'd recommend looking to buy a book: in English "A Guide to LaTeX" (Kopka and Daly) is probably the best.

[localghost]

[...] I got the solution by changing my editor to Winedit. [...]

A very unconventional way of solving the problem. TeXnicCenter (TXC) for example executes BibTeX by default in every output profile and starts all other necessary runs automatically. So you should get your references very easy.


Best regards
Thorsten

[upani1982]

Hi Thorsten,

I agree with you. I don't know what's wrong in texnic centre. I am still getting errors. Would you please let me know what is the problem there. Both .tex and .bib file is there on my first post. As i don't have knowledge regarding the technical details of both editors, so i left with no-choice but to use the one which gives me the output.

I am grateful to both of you to guide me.

Thanks and Regards,
Upananda