BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography Problem

[eric23]

Hi,

I'm using TexMakerX on a PC. I started using a thesis template provided by my university, and it all works fine except for the bibliography. The quickbuild is set to LaTex/Bibtex/Latex/PDF-Latex/PDF-viewer. It returns the errors:

Citation '5' on page 1 undefined on input line 4.
Empty 'thebibliography' environment on input line 3.
There were undefined references.

The .bib file seems to be in the right format, and a .bbl file is produced, but in the pdf, the in-text citation appears as [?] and no references appear at the end. This is also the case if I use \nocite.

After much mucking around unsuccessfully I looked at the tutorial example at http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/lat ... iographies and made a small test file to see what was going wrong. However, I get exactly the same error messages and problems. Here is my .tex file:

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\documentclass{article}
\bibliographystyle{plain}

\begin{document}
See \cite{5} for details.
\bibliography{testbib}
\end{document}

and here is my .bib file:

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@article{5,
   author = {Sutherland, T. D. and Young, J. H.},
   title = {Insect silk: One name, many materials},
   journal = {Annual Review of Entomology},
   volume = {55},
   pages = {171-188},
   year = {2010}
}

I can't work out what's wrong. They are all in the same directory. Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[arwintcher]

Have you tried creating an MWE? Usually when this happens to me I eventually find a seemingly unrelated error, like an extra }, a character like & in the middle of a caption, or something like that. I'd start with looking at whatever is on line 4 and see if you can spot a little mistake like that.

[localghost]

[…] After much mucking around unsuccessfully I looked at the tutorial example at http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/lat ... iographies and made a small test file to see what was going wrong. However, I get exactly the same error messages and problems. […]

Any you certainly paid special attention to the remarks in the section called „Why won't LaTeX generate any output?“.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten