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wuming
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Why is my BibTeX bibliography empty?

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hello

same problem as it is described in:

Post subject: bibliography
PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:12 am

So, when I compile with Bibtex the .bbl file that's created is empty except for the \begin{thebibliography}{} \end{thebibliography} part. If re-compile with Bibtex, even this part disappears!!

Funny thing is that when I first compiled with same style and a default bib sample, references and cite created correctly.

Any workaround?

thanks

ps. And I have not forgotten any ',' or other symbols in the bib entry -- references do not appear not even with a single bib entry --

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Stefan Kottwitz
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Re: bibtex

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Hi wuming,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
Can you post your bibtex logfile? (extension .blg)

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wuming
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Why is my BibTeX bibliography empty?

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thanks Stefan

I take it that *.pmf is the *.blg you ask for, though it seems that I am not allowed to upload;
so I upload general log
summary_fin.log
(13.25 KiB) Downloaded 491 times
I can email *.pmf

please let me know

cheers
wuming
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Re: bibtex

Post by wuming »

Thanks Stefan.
It seems that this caused because of citation missing, so when I add \cite it works fine

cheers

the .blg::

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: summary_fin.aux
The style file: eg-alpha.bst
I found no \citation commands---while reading file summary_fin.aux
Database file #1: yo.bib
(There was 1 error message)
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Why is my BibTeX bibliography empty?

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Hi wuming,

you could use \nocite with wildcard:

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\nocite{*}
to add all references even without citing inside the text.

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wuming
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Re: bibtex

Post by wuming »

thanks for tip
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