BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ References do not appear

[Tkyokushin]

Hi to all,

I have problems with two references I will explain first then introduce them.

1. I have a reference of a guy called "DeMello" and in both reference page and in the main text it shows me "Mello". I check my bib file and everything is written well.
2. I have a reference that never appear and of course everything is written well.

These are the two database entries:

Code: Select all

@article{Terzaghi,
  Author = {K Terzaghi and R B Peck and G Mesri},
  Date-Added = {2013-09-12 23:17:10 +0000},
  Date-Modified = {2013-10-21 07:24:49 +0000},
  Title = {Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice},
  Volume = {3rd edition, Wiley, New York},
  Year = {1996}
}

@article{DeMello,
  Author = {V F B DeMello},
  Date-Modified = {2013-10-16 13:35:07 +0000},
  Journal = {6th Regional Conference for Africa on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Durban, South Africa},
  Pages = {pp. 285-304},
  Title = {Some lessons from unsuspected, real and fictious problems in earth dam engineering in Brazil},
  Year = {1975}
}

I am running TeXworks on Mac OS X.

[kaiserkarl13]

Can you produce an example that reproduces this problem? We need to know things like document class, bibliography style, citation commands used, that sort of thing.

[Tkyokushin]

Hi

this is my document header

Code: Select all

\documentclass{LMTreport}
\usepackage [frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\graphicspath{{figures/}}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{multirow}
\bibliographystyle{apalike-fr}

I'm writing my PhD

and citation command is

Code: Select all

\cite{DeMello}
\cite{Terzaghi}

i have around 100 difference references all work fine except these 2

[Johannes_B]

Alsways asking for minimal working examples makes me really tired.

Code: Select all

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @article{Terzaghi,
      Author = {K Terzaghi and R B Peck and G Mesri},
      Date-Added = {2013-09-12 23:17:10 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2013-10-21 07:24:49 +0000},
      Title = {Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice},
      Volume = {3rd edition, Wiley, New York},
      Year = {1996}
    }

    @article{DeMello,
      Author = {V F B DeMello},
      Date-Modified = {2013-10-16 13:35:07 +0000},
      Journal = {6th Regional Conference for Africa on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Durban, South Africa},
      Pages = {pp. 285-304},
      Title = {Some lessons from unsuspected, real and fictious problems in earth dam engineering in Brazil},
      Year = {1975}
    }
\end{filecontents}
\documentclass{article}
%\documentclass{LMTreport}% I don't have this class
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% A warning told me to use this encoding. 
% Definitely a good idea for languages
% with diacritics
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\bibliographystyle{apalike-fr}
\begin{document}
I am a minimal example

\cite{DeMello}
\nocite{*}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

This gives me the bibliography with both references. Click on Open in writelatex directly above the code to verify it.

[kaiserkarl13]

Alsways asking for minimal working examples makes me really tired.

I concur....

I can't reproduce this either. You didn't provide the document class, so I can't be certain what's happening there. Try to get it working with NO additional packages if you can. The instructions for a minimal working example are common enough that there's a special "MWE" button on this site (which should tell you something).

[Tkyokushin]

I am sorry
I am a complete beginner in LaTeX and still learning day by day
The document class is my university style report, we are not obliged to use it but it was ready i just had to fill.

About my problem it Works fine now
Thank you very much to all.