BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Receiving an empty title warning

[cbkschroeder]

Hello,

Thanks for reading my post.

I'm trying to determine why bibtex keeps giving the the error

Warning--empty title in this

when my latex file is:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}

\citestyle{nature}
\bibliographystyle{nature}

\begin{document}

test\citealp{this}.

\bibliography{test_bib}

\end{document}

and my bibtex file is

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@ARTICLE{this,
    AUTHOR="Name",
    JOURNAL="Journal of Stuff",
    PAGES="1--2",
    TITLE={Big Title},
    VOLUME=1,
    YEAR=1900
    }

The output is attached.

Any help which could be provided would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Christian

[frabjous]

I don't know, but the problem seems to result from the line:

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\bibliographystyle{nature}

line. Using a different style file does not seem to generate the problem.

I noticed that nature.bst is only listed on CTAN as a part of a listing of obsolete files. Is there some reason you're still using it? Try changing it to plainnat or something else.

[cbkschroeder]

I agree that it's clearly related to the nature file. I am using it because it's indicated in the natbib documentation which, I assume, must mean it can't be *that* horrible - can it? . I'm using that file versus others because I'm trying to compile a paper for one of the nature journals and I will be required to adhere to their specific format. I'm not otherwise attached to it. Any other ideas as to how I might successfully achieve that with a more "modern" (read: less obsolete) means?

Thanks for your time!

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use biblatex and its nature style. A little example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=nature,autocite=superscript]{biblatex}% biblatex using nature style

% your bibliographical database
\bibliography{biblio}

\begin{document}

Some text\autocite{goossens93}

% to list all the entries of the .bib database
\nocite{*}

% the command that actually prints the bibliography
\printbibliography

\end{document}

The database biblio.bib:

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@book{goossens93,
	author = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittlebach and Alexander Samarin",
	title = "The Latex Companion A",
	year = "1993",
	publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
	address = "Reading, Massachusetts"

}

@article{greenwade93, 
	author = "George D. Greenwade",
	title = "The {C}omprehensive {T}ex {A}rchive {N}etwork ({CTAN})",
	year = "1993",
	journal = "TUGBoat",
	volume = "14",
	number = "3",
	pages = "342--351"
}

@book{knuth79,
	author = "Donald E. Knuth",
	title = "Tex and Metafont, New Directions in Typesetting",
	year = {1979{(}1950{)}},
	publisher = "American Mathematical Society and Digital Press",
	address = "Stanford"
}

@book{lamport94,
	author = "Leslie Lamport",
	title = "Latex: A Document Preparation System",
	year = "1994",
	edition = "Second",
	publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
	address = "Reading, Massachusetts"
}

@misc{patashnik88,
	author = "Oren Patashnik",
	title = "{B}ib{T}e{X}ing.  Documentation for General {B}ib{T}e{X} users",
	year = "1988",
	howpublished = "Electronic document accompanying BibTeX
distribution"
}

@techreport{rahtz89,
	author = "Sebastian Rahtz",
	title = "A Survey of {T}ex and graphics",
	year = "1989",
	institution = "Department of Electronics and Computer Science",
	address = "University of Southampton, UK",
	number = "CSTR 89-7"
}

The compilation procedure:

run (pdf)latex, then bibtex, and then (pdf)latex once more.

[cbkschroeder]

gmedina,

Thank you kindly for your suggestion; it works beautifully and you've helped me out a lot!

Thanks again!

Christian