BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Problem with generating Reference list (no bbl file?)

[CorneliusJack]

Hi everyone, I am just starting with LaTeX so I am sure I have made a bunch of silly mistake on the way. But as of yesterday I am stuck with no solution. So here is a bit of background:

Win7, installed MikeTex (with auto-installed package setting) and using TexMaker for editing, and installed JabRef for creating bib-files.

So I have created a .bib file with several entries, and put it in the same directory as my .tex file. And yet when I try to generate the reference list by invoking /cite{...}, the result list it is empty, and there was warning of:

LaTeX Warning: Citation `Duffie2001' on page 1 undefined on input line 8.
No file foo.bbl.

I also tried /nocite to find the whole list but to no avail.

I read some of the older posts here with similar problem and I used the MWA, foo.tex to try to work with it. And I encountered similar problem.

I have also read that for everytime the .bib is read into the TexMaker, an aux file will be introduced with the citation appended to it. And indeed there is such file, but I still can't generate .bbl file. Please help.

I noticed that aux files are not allowed here on forum. So I will put it in quote, here is the .aux file that's generated:

\relax
\citation{Duffie2001}
\bibstyle{plain}
\bibdata{foo}

I have attached several files(MWA that was used here before, log file, and the bib file)

Here is the screen-cap of the setting and quick-build screen:

http://i.imgur.com/A4YtB.png
http://i.imgur.com/fCWYu.png

(the image size are too big, so I hyperlinked them as url instead of img)

[Frits]

The example you posted works fine here. Note that, when adding a new citation to your document, you have to compile it as follows:

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latex foo
bibtex foo
latex foo
latex foo

So first compile normal, then compile bibtex, then latex two more times. You'll notice that the warning(s) disappear that last time.

[CorneliusJack]

The example you posted works fine here. Note that, when adding a new citation to your document, you have to compile it as follows:

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latex foo
bibtex foo
latex foo
latex foo

So first compile normal, then compile bibtex, then latex two more times. You'll notice that the warning(s) disappear that last time.

Thank you for the reply!
How do I go about doing that with MikeTex+TexMaker+JabRef?

[Frits]

To compile the LaTex part in Texmaker you probably use the Quick Build button. That's fine.
To compile the BibTeX part, click Tools -> BibTeX (F11).

[CorneliusJack]

Oh, I had the wrong setting in the TexMaker.
I changed it back to "bibtex %.aux" and now it works!

And I also set the quickBuild to

latex
bibtex
latex
pdfLatex
Pdf Viewer


now it builds the bll and view the pdf automatically. Thank you so much!

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Thorsten

[CorneliusJack]

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Thorsten

Done. Thank you for the assistance.