BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ IEEEtran | Error by "Missing Item" in Bibliography

[damien]

Hello all,

I am trying to migrate to LaTeX, using Kile under Ubuntu 8.04.

I am attempting to modify the example IEEE "bare_jrbl.tex" file to use the "IEEEexample.bib" file supplied - that is, I want to use a separate bibliography and want to rule out my own bibtex file as the problem.

I have change the tex file as follows. I have commented out the following, and added the following below:

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% can use a bibliography generated by BibTeX as a .bbl file
% BibTeX documentation can be easily obtained at:
% http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/
% The IEEEtran BibTeX style support page is at:
% http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/bibtex/
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
% argument is your BibTeX string definitions and bibliography database(s)
\bibliography{./IEEEexample}
%
% <OR> manually copy in the resultant .bbl file
% set second argument of \begin to the number of references
% (used to reserve space for the reference number labels box)
% \begin{thebibliography}{1}

% \bibitem{IEEEhowto:kopka}
% H.~Kopka and P.~W. Daly, \emph{A Guide to \LaTeX}, 3rd~ed.\hskip 1em plus
%   0.5em minus 0.4em\relax Harlow, England: Addison-Wesley, 1999.

% \end{thebibliography}

And, I have added the following citation in the main section:

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% Here we have the typical use of a "T" for an initial drop letter
% and "HIS" in caps to complete the first word.
\IEEEPARstart{T}{his} demo file is intended to serve as a ``starter file''
for IEEE journal papers produced under \LaTeX\ using
IEEEtran.cls version 1.7 and later.
% You must have at least 2 lines in the paragraph with the drop letter
% (should never be an issue)
I wish you the best of success.

%%%%%%%%% ADDED LINE BELOW %%%%%%%%%%%%%
\cite{IEEEwebsite}

However, I get the following error message in the window below:

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[LaTeX] bare_jrnl.tex => bare_jrnl.dvi (latex)
[LaTeX] finished with exit status 1
./bare_jrnl.tex:525: Citation `IEEEwebsite' on page 1 undefined on input line 525.
./bare_jrnl.bbl:24:Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. \end{thebibliography}
./bare_jrnl.tex:0: There were undefined references.
[LaTeX] 1 error, 2 warnings, 0 badboxes

And the following bbl file gets generated:

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% Generated by IEEEtran.bst, version: 1.12 (2007/01/11)
\begin{thebibliography}{0}
\providecommand{\url}[1]{#1}
\csname url@samestyle\endcsname
\providecommand{\newblock}{\relax}
\providecommand{\bibinfo}[2]{#2}
\providecommand{\BIBentrySTDinterwordspacing}{\spaceskip=0pt\relax}
\providecommand{\BIBentryALTinterwordstretchfactor}{4}
\providecommand{\BIBentryALTinterwordspacing}{\spaceskip=\fontdimen2\font plus
\BIBentryALTinterwordstretchfactor\fontdimen3\font minus
  \fontdimen4\font\relax}
\providecommand{\BIBforeignlanguage}[2]{{%
\expandafter\ifx\csname l@#1\endcsname\relax
\typeout{** WARNING: IEEEtran.bst: No hyphenation pattern has been}%
\typeout{** loaded for the language `#1'. Using the pattern for}%
\typeout{** the default language instead.}%
\else
\language=\csname l@#1\endcsname
\fi
#2}}
\providecommand{\BIBdecl}{\relax}
\BIBdecl

\end{thebibliography}

And finally, if it helps anyone, the following latex output gets generated

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*****
*****     LaTeX output: 
*****     cd '/home/damien/phd/Publications/templates/IEEE'
*****     latex -interaction=nonstopmode 'bare_jrnl.tex'
*****
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./bare_jrnl.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, farsi, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, czech, slov
ak, danish, dutch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, greek, mon
ogreek, ancientgreek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, icelandic, i
nterlingua, turkish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, estonian, esp
eranto, uppersorbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, galicia
n, swedish, ukenglish, loaded.
(./IEEEtran.cls
Document Class: IEEEtran 2007/03/05 V1.7a by Michael Shell
-- See the "IEEEtran_HOWTO" manual for usage information.
-- http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd)
-- Using 8.5in x 11in (letter) paper.
-- Using DVI output.
-- This is a 10 point document.
) (./bare_jrnl.aux)

LaTeX Warning: Citation `IEEEwebsite' on page 1 undefined on input line 525.

(./bare_jrnl.bbl

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.24 \end{thebibliography}
                          
) [1] (./bare_jrnl.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on bare_jrnl.dvi (1 page, 2888 bytes).
Transcript written on bare_jrnl.log.

I'm now at a bit of a loss, so if anyone could point me in the correct direction, it would be very much appreciated.

Cheers
Damien

[damien]

OK, I have lost a day on this, but I have managed to work it out.

1. Update your IEEE Template from CTAN (downloading the zip is easiest): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... /IEEEtran/

2. Clean out any latex-generated files from your project/directory.

3. Test the following using kile (or the command line, if you are comfortable with with it)
Build -> Compile -> latex
Build -> Compile -> Bibtex
Build -> Compile -> latex
Build -> Compile -> latex (yes, twice after bibtex)
Build -> View -> ViewDVI

If it comes out as you expect, then it's time to update your quick-build button. By default (at least in Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron) it does not automatically follow the steps above. To do so:
Settings -> Configure Kile
Click on "tools -> Build"
Go down to "QuickBuild" under "select a tool"
Under "select a configuration", choose "Latex+BibTex+ViewDVI", or just add the steps yourself with the "Tool" drop-down box and the buttons below.

Hopefully this helps someone else. It really, really frustrated me!

[crobar]

Thank you, I had the same problem, no doubt you've saved me hours of gnashing of teeth followed by much forehead slapping. Here's to meaningful error messages!

[padmaiyenghar]

Thanks a lot for posting this query and reply. It saved a lot of time for me.

-Padma

[linhtdh1k49]

Thank you for posting this solution for Bibtex.
In my case, I am using
TexMaker 3.2
MikTex 2.9

I am also having a problem with IEEEtran package.

1, Line 24, LaTeX errors: Something's wrong-perhaps a missing \item.
2, Line 525, Citation IEEEwebsite on page 1 undefined on input line 525.
3, Line 1, There were undefined references.

I think it's exactly what you have met before.

But when I do quick build, clean out all stuffs, and change sequence of compliler :LATEX --> BIBTEX --> LATEX --> LATEX.

Unfortunately, it still happened same errors.

I have been stuck in this error for long time, although searching and trying to change sequence. But it did not work.

Please help me >_<

[evaampe]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I also use the newest IEEEtran I just downloaded from the website. But in two column mode I get the error:

./bare_jrnl.tex:0: There were undefined references.

I do: pdflatex bibtex pdflatex pdflatex

Any idea?

Cheers
Eva

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%% bare_jrnl.tex
%% V1.3
%% 2007/01/11
%% by Michael Shell
%% see http://www.michaelshell.org/
%% for current contact information.
%%
%% This is a skeleton file demonstrating the use of IEEEtran.cls
%% (requires IEEEtran.cls version 1.7 or later) with an IEEE journal paper.
%%
%% Support sites:
%% http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeetran/
%% http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/
%% and
%% http://www.ieee.org/



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% respect to the quality of the end results, all users are strongly
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%\ifCLASSOPTIONcaptionsoff
%  \usepackage[nomarkers]{endfloat}
% \let\MYoriglatexcaption\caption
% \renewcommand{\caption}[2][\relax]{\MYoriglatexcaption[#2]{#2}}
%\fi
% endfloat.sty was written by James Darrell McCauley and Jeff Goldberg.
% This package may be useful when used in conjunction with IEEEtran.cls'
% captionsoff option. Some IEEE journals/societies require that submissions
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% that suggested by in the endfloat docs (section 8.3.1) to ensure that
% the full captions always appear in the list of figures/tables - even if
% the user used the short optional argument of \caption[]{}.
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% captions of packages such as subfig.sty that lack options to turn off
% the subcaptions:
% For subfig.sty:
% \let\MYorigsubfloat\subfloat
% \renewcommand{\subfloat}[2][\relax]{\MYorigsubfloat[]{#2}}
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% The IEEEtran \ifCLASSOPTIONcaptionsoff conditional can also be used
% later in the document, say, to conditionally put the References on a 
% page by themselves.





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% *** Do not adjust lengths that control margins, column widths, etc. ***
% *** Do not use packages that alter fonts (such as pslatex).         ***
% There should be no need to do such things with IEEEtran.cls V1.6 and later.
% (Unless specifically asked to do so by the journal or conference you plan
% to submit to, of course. )


% correct bad hyphenation here
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}

[vanqru]

I followed the instructions and it did help. Two important things I found out is that in your paper, you should have at least one reference for your bibtex to work and you should point correctly your command of bibtex to the bibtex program, e.g. (in my case: "C:/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/bin/bibtex.exe" %.aux" (%.aux instead of % or %.tex)
Hope it helps

[majidraf]

OK, I have lost a day on this, but I have managed to work it out.

1. Update your IEEE Template from CTAN (downloading the zip is easiest): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... /IEEEtran/

2. Clean out any latex-generated files from your project/directory.

3. Test the following using kile (or the command line, if you are comfortable with with it)
Build -> Compile -> latex
Build -> Compile -> Bibtex
Build -> Compile -> latex
Build -> Compile -> latex (yes, twice after bibtex)
Build -> View -> ViewDVI

If it comes out as you expect, then it's time to update your quick-build button. By default (at least in Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron) it does not automatically follow the steps above. To do so:
Settings -> Configure Kile
Click on "tools -> Build"
Go down to "QuickBuild" under "select a tool"
Under "select a configuration", choose "Latex+BibTex+ViewDVI", or just add the steps yourself with the "Tool" drop-down box and the buttons below.

Hopefully this helps someone else. It really, really frustrated me!

I spent two days to solve this problem until I found your solution. So appreciated for your help.

[DarkChoclate]

I have the same problem, I tried to Compile .bib but I've got the following error: "Bibtex returned exit code 1 indicate that some problem might have occurred during compilation".
I tried for 2 hours but i could not solve the problem. Any help is very very much appreciated!


Here is my texfile:

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\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{float} 					% force figures to location with [H]
\usepackage[figuresright]{rotating} % rotation of figures
\usepackage{subfigure}				% stack and arange figures
\usepackage{graphics} 				% you now may use jpg
\usepackage{eso-pic}				% include images covering the whole page (see title page)
\usepackage{overpic}				% you can use this package to write over your figure, see manual
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{morefloats}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,txfonts,tabu}
%\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
%\usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
%\usepackage{biblatex}
\hyphenation{op-tical net-works semi-conduc-tor}
\graphicspath{{./pics/}}
\newcommand{\myreferences}{../references/myref.bib}
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[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

you haven't given us much information. What is the error BibTeX is reporting? Please show us the log file of BibTeX, it has the file ending blg.