BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Import of BibTeX References

[Dominique]

Hello,

I'm quite new to LaTeX and I tried to use BibTeX for the first time to create my reference list. I created a .bib file in BibDesk (termpaper.bib), saved in in the same folder as my LaTeX file, and then typed this in LaTeX:

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\bibliographystyle{lamsplain}
\bibliography{termpaper}

This did not give me a reference list, so I googled my problem and found out I had to type "latex bib" and "bibtex bib" in the Terminal a few times, but the terminal says

Please type another input file name: latex bib ! I can't find file `latex'.

Does anyone know how I can solve this?

Thanks in advance!

[cgnieder]

Suppose you called your document source file myfile.tex. Then compilation usually done with latex myfile or pdflatex myfile or xelatex myfile. This compilation call often is made by clicking on a button (e.g. when you use an editor like TeXworks or Kile). The same way you create the needed bbl file: by calling bibtex myfile (and after that a LaTeX compilation again).

Regards