BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ No bibliography and just question marks instead of reference

[Coral]

Dear All,

my name is Coral I am quite new in Latex but step by step understanding more and more hehe. Info about me: I am using TexMaker(4.0.1) and Jabref(2.8).

I got a problem:

No bibliography and just question marks instead of references.

I got from Stefan_K this answer:

You need to run the external command bibtex on your document, either at the command line or via an editor feature.

Problem now:

I do not understand what does it means. Should I download the bibtex?
As I don´t really know where the problem could be I cannot do a minimal example, then I am sending you the class file and the part of the main document about the bibliography:

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%% --------------------
%% |   Bibliography   |
%% --------------------
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bibname}

\iflanguage{english}
{\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranSA}}	% english style
{\bibliographystyle{babalpha-fl}}	% german style
												  
% Use IEEEtran for numeric references
%\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranSA})

\bibliography{thesis}

If you need something more just let me know. Thanks for your help and time.

Cheers,

Coral

[Johannes_B]

Hi,

BibTeX is a small little programm, doing just the stuff you need with your literature. In TexMaker you can run it by pressing the F9 key (if I remember correctly).
You doo not net to download that, it comes with your TeX-Distribution (TeX Live or MikTex), just like the pdflatex-program.

Regards

[Coral]

Hi,

I knew that bibtex have something to do with bibliography and in my texmaker is F11 and after pressing it I got this errors, I´ve looked for the in internet but nothing.

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! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc) in inputencoding `latin1'.
See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.


! LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... \bibitem[Met01]{Metzger2001}

hier the entry:

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@ARTICLE{Metzger2001,
  author = {Metzger, Robert M.},
  title = {THE QUEST FOR UNIMOLECULAR RECTIFICATION FROM OXFORD TO WALTHAM TO
	EXETER TO TUSCALOOSA},
  journal = {Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A},
  year = {2001},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {1499-1517},
  number = {12},
  abstract = { A unimolecular electronic device should perform active electronic
	functions by exploiting the energy levels, or conformations, of a
	singlemolecule, or a very few molecules, and should be addressable
	electrically by macroscopic electrodes. We found unimolecular rectification
	in a molecule, γ-hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinomethanide, 4,
	in which the ground state is Zwitterionic: D+-π-A−, while the
	first excited state is undissociated: D0-Ï€-A0. This 2.3 nm long
	unimolecular device, measured three years ago between Al electrodes
	and now between Au electrodes, confirms a 1974 proposal by Aviram
	and Ratner. },
  doi = {10.1081/MA-100108401},
  eprint = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1081/MA-100108401},
  owner = {herranz},
  timestamp = {2013.04.17},
  url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/MA-100108401}
}

I have looked in the entry and I dont know what happens. Maybe the rare characters? After removing from the bib all the entries with rare characters I finally got the bibliography.

I have some entries with turkish names, should I then introduce a new package?
Or I have to change in the text code in the bibtex file from the jab ref the characters and write them in latex? I got all the references from internet and tried to put them as they came, not a good thing?

Thanks for your help and time.

Coral

[cgnieder]

The error message says it: you have an unknown character in your file. That is, a character that inputenc with encoding latin1 does not know of. It is hard to tell which one since you didn't post a minimal working example (if you don't know what that is please follow the link) that let's us reproduce the error. However, the bib-entry you posted at least has some strange (and presumably wrong) characters

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  abstract = {... Zwitterionic: D+-π-A−, while the
        first excited state is undissociated: D0-Ï€-A0. ...},

It looks like there should be chemical formulas there...

Regards