BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Use of Year in Bibliography Item

[brambles87]

I am new to LaTeX and struggling to create a bibliography with apacite. I have spent some time struggling with the documentation to no avail. I don't know if it is a really basic mistake I am making or something wrong with the package version or something (2013-02-24).

Anyway, I get three errors no matter what I do and I can't make sense of any of them:

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! Use of \@year@ doesn't match its definition.
! Undefined control sequence.
! You can't use `\relax' after \the.

MWE:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{apacite}

\begin{document}

some text
\cite{ahu61}

\bibliography{testbib}{}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}

..and "mytestbib.bib" in the same folder contains just this:

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@article{ahu61,
  author={Arrow, Kenneth J. and Leonid Hurwicz and Hirofumi Uzawa},
  title={Constraint qualifications in maximization problems},
  journal={Naval Research Logistics Quarterly},
  volume={8},
  year={1961},
  pages={175-191}
}

Any help would be much appreciated!

Neil

[Juanjo]

According with the guide of the apacite package, you should use the apacite bibliographic style:

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\bibliography{testbib}
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

Please note that there were two spurious braces at the end of the first line.