BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Can't clearpage before bibliography

[flo12392]

Dear all,

I am currently writing my thesis but I have encountered an issue to which I cannot find a solution. I can not use a \clearpage before my bibliography anymore. If i do so, I get the error:

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Error - Line 1 - !LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help... \begin{thebibliography}{20}.

If I remove the \clearpage statement before the biliography statement, the error disappears and the article compiles correctly. Currently, the code for including my bibliography looks as follows:

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\clearpage
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{references}
\clearpage

Does anyone have an idea what might cause this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Florian

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Florian,

welcome to the forum!

I think the \clearpage before the bibliography is not the cause of the error, even though you suspect it. The bibliography is produced by several compiler runs (produce the aux file and the bbl file, read the bbl file in and write another aux, ...) so it may seem unclear what the actual cause is, especially if an error occurs not when it's caused but on another tun with another change.

Perhaps post you .bbl file here. The best would be a minimal working example. Just try to provide the information you think would allow us to reproduce the problem.

Stefan

[flo12392]

Thank you for your quick answer. You were correct in mentioning that the bibliography itself was not the cause of the problem. Somewhere else in my article I used the following code to move an image slightly to the right:

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\captionsetup{width=1\textwidth}
\begin{figure}[H]
\center
\hbox{\hspace{10ex}\includegraphics[scale=.62]{performanceperfactor.pdf}}
\caption{{The average percentage gap between the best know solution for an instance and the solution that was found by the final heuristic per factor.}}
\label{fig:performancebarplot}
\end{figure}

removing the hbox around the Figure resolved my issue. Still no idea why exactly this causes an error when combined with the \clearpage, since the statements are three pages apart, but I can live with that. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Regards,
Florian

[Johannes_B]

A short hint, the command should be \centering.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In addition to Johannes hint, perhaps see \center vs. \centering. \center is actually \begin{center} and produces additional vertical space.

Stefan