Document Classes ⇒ elsarticle, natbib | No output citations

[diaa_abidou]

I am trying to complete an article in Elsevier format, however, it is my first time in applying Elsevier format with natbib bibliography format. Accordingly, in the following minimal example, the reference is printed correctly, but without its citation in the main text. I am using Winedt 7 with Miktex 2.9.

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\documentclass[review,5p,a4paper,10pt]{elsarticle}
\usepackage{caption,subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[pctex32]{LSCAPE}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{units}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num-names}
\biboptions{square,numbers,sort&compress}

\begin{document}

\begin{frontmatter}
\title{any title}
\begin{abstract}
some abstract
\end{abstract}
\begin{keyword}
something
\end{keyword}
\end{frontmatter}

\section{Intro}

Any citation \cite{test}

\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{test}
some info
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

It would be appreciated if any help is provided.
Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I can see the citation in the main text. Note, you have to typeset twice, at the first time just a question mark for an unknown reference would be printed.

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Stefan

[diaa_abidou]

I tried your suggestion and it worked only for my minimal example.

While for my main manuscript, every second compilation time generates an error preventing the compilation process from completion, so I delete the .aux file and then the first compilation time goes smoothly, while having the same problem for the second time without deleting the aux file.

Three successive compilations (including the failed one) work but without generating the manuscript including the citations numbers.

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I tried your suggestion and it worked only for my minimal example.

That's often the problem with an example which is synthesized from scratch - it doesn't contain the issue, so it may be useless.

The better approach is to hack down a copy of the original document. Reducing the copy step by step, you will either get a real and relevant minimal example, or you have narrowed it down to one single step, which contains the issue.

Stefan

[diaa_abidou]

I am sorry for that, you are right. I have found my problem in the author email address field, since I didn't notice the underscore in the address which generates a confused error to me.

Your help is highly appreciated and I am sorry again for my confusion.