BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibtex in Texmaker

[owthlitt]

Hello, after much searching I have decided that I'm unable to extract the information I need to make my bibtex file work. Now I have included the following lines in my document

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\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Articles}

Where Articles.bib is my bibtex file containing my references. When I input a \cite{reference} it produces a number in the document and then in the bibliography but nothing more than a number, i.e. no title, author.
Where my references in the .bib file are all of the form

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@Article{frohlich08,
author = {Jochen Frohlich, Dominic von Terzi},
title = {Hybrid LES/RANS methods for the simulation of turbulent flows},
journal = {Progress in Aerospace Sciences},
year = {2008}
}

What needs to be done to ensure the articles show up correctly in the bibliography. And is there a way of making all articles show without citing them?

Thank you

[frabjous]

Can you post the .blg file that is created here?

[owthlitt]

It does not allow me to upload files with the extension .blg unfortunately (The forum)

[frabjous]

Forgot about that. I hope they fix it. You could put it in a .zip file, or just rename the file to something it accepts (.tex, .log, etc.).

[owthlitt]

I've zipped it, see file.

[frabjous]

Well that you could have just posted in a code box. Here is the entire file:

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This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d
The top-level auxiliary file: Initial search report.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: Articles.bib
I was expecting a `,' or a `}'---line 16 of file Articles.bib
 : 
 : author = {T.J.Craft, A.V.Gerasimov, B.E.Launder, C.M.E.Robinson},
(Error may have been on previous line)
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Warning--to sort, need author or key in craft06
Warning--empty author in craft06
Warning--empty title in craft06
Warning--empty journal in craft06
Warning--empty year in craft06
(There was 1 error message)

There's an error in craft06 entry of your bib file. The error is probably in the line right above the author line, e.g., a missing comma at the end. I guess the first thing to do would be to fix that and see if it helps.

It might not. But just to be clear, do you always get this problem, even with a truly minimal document, such as:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Let us cite \cite{frohlich08}.

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{sample}
\end{document}

With sample.bib consisting only of a single entry, e.g.:

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@Article{frohlich08,
author = {Jochen Frohlich, Dominic von Terzi},
title = {Hybrid LES/RANS methods for the simulation of turbulent flows},
journal = {Progress in Aerospace Sciences},
year = {2008}
}

[owthlitt]

Ah excellent, I have it working thank you. It was me being silly, I managed to select the only article where I had messed up the entry and missed a comma. It works now thank you.

Now what I want to ask is; is it possible to have all entries show for the references but only citing some of them?

I have 39 articles which I need to have in the bibliography, but I only want to cite 16 which I want to highlight. Is this possible, or must I cite all of them and then cite the 16 I'm interested in?

Thank you

[localghost]

[…] Now what I want to ask is; is it possible to have all entries show for the references but only citing some of them? […]

A simple command will do.

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\nocite{*}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten