BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ BibTex is writing additional line, how to get rid of it

[anicole]

Hi,
I'm writing my thesis. Bibtex is perfectly generating the bibliography but there is additional line at the end of reference section. Does anyone have the same problem? Thanks in advance.

[8] J.N. Tsitsiklis and B. Van Roy. Regression methods for pricing complex
american-style options. IEEE Transactions and Neural Networks, 12(4):694
703, 2002.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

[frabjous]

Please provide a minimal working example.

[anicole]

Hope this would help.

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%% LyX 1.6.7 created this file.
\documentclass[american]{paper}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{esint}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\numberwithin{equation}{section}
\numberwithin{figure}{section}
\makeatother
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Project}
\cite{ben07,ben09,Black73,broadie04,fries07,longstaff01,Lopez10,tsitsiklis02}
\end{document}

[frabjous]

A minimal working example would also have included a minimal .bib file.

What is the additional line? Do you mean the:

"[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]" part?

That is the expected behavior of the \cite command.

Normally, however, the cite command is used in the body of the document, e.g.:

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According to some studies (see, e.g., 
\cite{smith09,jones10}), the chicken came 
first. According to others (see, e.g., 
\cite{black08,white99}), the egg came first.

There the cite commands would become [1, 2] and [3, 4] or whatever in the body of the text.

It's very strange therefore to use \cite commands after rather than before, the bibliography.

If you want an entry to appear in the bibliography but without being cited in the body of the document, then use the \nocite command. In your case, you could probably use:

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    %% LyX 1.6.7 created this file.
    \documentclass[american]{paper}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{amsthm}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{esint}
    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
    \numberwithin{equation}{section}
    \numberwithin{figure}{section}
    \makeatother
    \usepackage{babel}
    \begin{document}
    \nocite{ben07,ben09,Black73,broadie04,fries07,longstaff01,Lopez10,tsitsiklis02}%
    \bibliographystyle{plain}%
    \bibliography{Project}
    
    \end{document}

[anicole]

Thanks a million. It really works~
I've learned much from this.

[localghost]

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