Hi
This is my first post here and I hope I am posting it in the right place.
I am writing my thesis now, and I am using BibTeX to format my bibliography. My problem is this: If I include a reference in any of my figure caption, the reference counter gets back to [1] although the reference just before the one I used in my figure caption is mentioned correctly [49], say.
Why does reference counter starts over again when I include a reference in my figures?
To solve this issue, I noticed that if I remove .bbl, .aux, .lot, .lof, ... I get the reference numbers correctly after I re-latex my document. But if I re-latex it again, it get back to the error case of reporting the last reference with [1] again?
Any help?
BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Reference Numbers get Reset
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Reference Numbers get Reset
Probably you have some cross-references in the captions of the figures. Check if those cross-references also appear in the LoF. If so, use the optional argument for
Think about doing some basic reading.
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Thorsten
\caption
to get rid of the references in the LoF.
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\caption[LoF entry]{Full caption with \cite{key}}
Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten
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