BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Some citations do not work

[Tea9000]

Ok I've been dealing with this for a week or so now, I'm using MikTex and BiBTex to create my references for a journal article in Physical Review B. This is my first paper and first attempt at using a reference page in this manner, so it's all new to me.

So I stripped everything down in my paper to the bare essentials to isolate the problem and here is what it looks like.

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 \documentclass[twocolumn,prb,aps,color,superscriptaddress]{revtex4}
 \begin{document} 
 \cite{PhysRevLett.97.085503}
 \cite{PhysRevB.54.11169} 
 \bibliography{ReferencePage}
 \end{document}

My bib file (ReferencePage) looks like this for the corresponding references, which were downloaded from the appropriate journal websites.

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@article{PhysRevLett.97.085503,
  title = {${\mathrm{O}}_{8}$ Cluster Structure of the Epsilon Phase of Solid Oxygen},
  author = {Fujihisa, Hiroshi and Akahama, Yuichi and Kawamura, Haruki and Ohishi, Yasuo and Shimomura, Osamu and Yamawaki, Hiroshi and Sakashita, Mami and Gotoh, Yoshito and Takeya, Satoshi and Honda, Kazumasa},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume = {97},
  issue = {8},
  pages = {085503},
  numpages = {4},
  year = {2006},
  month = {Aug},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.085503},
  url = {http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.085503}
}

@article{PhysRevB.54.11169,
  title = {Efficient iterative schemes for     \textit{ab initio}   total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set},
  author = {Kresse, G. and Furthm\"uller, J.},
  journal = {Phys. Rev. B},
  volume = {54},
  issue = {16},
  pages = {11169--11186},
  numpages = {0},
  year = {1996},
  month = {Oct},
  publisher = {American Physical Society},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.54.11169},
  url = {http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.11169}
}

Now in these two cases, the Physical Review B reference works perfectly, the Physical Review Letter reference however never creates itself. Now currently about 5 references work just fine, all from different journals in slightly different forms and the rest of my references fail to appear. I've also done the whole thing where you compile it once in pdfLaTeX then BiBTeX, then pdfLaTeX two more times. I've also compiled the BiBTeX file with the BiBTeX compiler.

I've tried multiple variations of creating the files and nothing seems to work, I'm at a loss for the moment.

[Johannes_B]

I've also compiled the BiBTeX file with the BiBTeX compiler.

Hi and welcome,

could be that i misread it and you did that additionally, but this is wrong. You have to run bibtex on the aux-file, that was created during the latex run.


Your example runs fine for me. You can delete all the auxiliary files and start fresh.

[Tea9000]

Thanks for the reply,

I tried deleting the aux files and recompiling it, but it doesn't seem to change anything. I'm not sure what you mean by compiling the aux files, is that even possible?

[Johannes_B]

Every time you do cite, LaTeX writes a little note to the aux file. BibTeX reads exactly that aux-file to know what to exract from the bib file. So, yes, you have to run bibtex on the aux file.

[Tea9000]

The auxiliary file is .aux extension, what am I supposed to open it with? bibtex doesn't even recognize it.

[Johannes_B]

On the command line, you can simply call

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$bibtex basename

where basename is the name of your main file without the extension.

On the other hand, your preferred LaTeX editor should do everything just fine by default. What editor are you using?

[Tea9000]

I'm using MikTeX.

So interestingly enough I copied and pasted the test file that's listed on here into a new document, compiled everything and it worked just fine. So I tried the same process for my paper and it's still doing the same thing, so I don't think I understand.

[Tea9000]

Ok, I think there was a bracket missing, once I went over everything I added a bracket half way down and it seems to be fixed.