BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ \bibitem with multiple files

[vicen]

Dear all,
My problem is that I have a \bibitem type of bibliography for my thesis, which contains several (multiple) included files, being the bibliography the last one. When I have the \cite{} and the \bibitem in the same document it runs perfectly, but when I have the bibliography in an included one I get the question marks (?) in the text. I know that normally for them to disappear it is necessary to run LaTeX; BibTeX; LaTeX; LaTeX, but this time they simply remain whatever I do (.bbl created only contain begin and end of the bibliography, and I have tried with several packages: natbib, biblatex,...).
I would deeply appreciate your help with this problem.
Best regards

[frabjous]

I assume that by a "\bibitem type of bibiography" you mean that you are not using BibTeX, but simply a \begin{thebibiography} ... \end{thebibliography} environment? In that case, it should not be necessary to run BibTeX at all (though you will need to run LaTeX multiple times).

Could you produce a minimal working example that exemplifies the problem?

For example, I have no trouble with the following:

main.tex:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Let's try citing \cite{something}
\input{mybibfile.tex}
\end{document}

mybibfile.tex:

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\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{something} Here is what I'm citing.
\end{thebibliography}

[vicen]

Yes, I meant not using BibTeX, but simply a \begin{thebibiography} ... \end{thebibliography}

Thank you very much! Seeing that your example worked I keept on moving things and apparently it did not work with the harvard commands I had:
\usepackage[agsm]{harvard}
\renewcommand{\harvardand}{and}
\citationmode{abbr}

but it did with the {cite} package alone.
Best regards.

[localghost]

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten