BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ bibtex under documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

[hugh]

Hello!

I am having trouble to create the bibliography for a IEEE conference paper.

When I work under other document classes I have not trouble at all using

\bibliographystyle{...}
\bibliography{...}

but when I change to \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} I get compilations errors with the line \bibliography{...}:

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

See...

xxx \end{thebibliography}"

I have read IEEEtrans_bst_howto but I have not found the origen of the problem.

Could anyone help me please??

Thanks a lot in advance.
Hugo

[frabjous]

Please provide a minimal working example showing the problem. If I simply do:

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\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\begin{document}
\cite{example}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{sample}
\end{document}

I do not get any errors.

[hugh]

thanks frabjous,

When I try to compile your code, I get the error. I have created sample.bib and I have put sample.bib in several locations (the same folder as the .tex file, miktex 2.7\bibtex\bib, miktex 2.7\bibtex\bib\ieeetran) but I have always obtained the same error.

If I change \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} by \documentclass{article} everything works fine.

I do not understand what is happening here!

[frabjous]

Try adding \listfiles as the first line of the code, and then process again, starting from scratch (i.e., delete the .aux and .bbl files beforehand), run (pdf)latex, bibtex, (pdf)latex twice more. If the problem persists, attach the complete .log, .blg and .bbl files that are generated, along with sample.bib, here. (Put them in a zip file or rename them so the forum will accept them.)

[hugh]

It is working now!

I just run (pdf)latex and it started working. Without adding \listfiles and without deleting anything. Before, I was running LaTeX instead of pdflatex. But it makes no sense that this could have solved the problem, isn't it? I am not aware of doing anything else!! Just executed WinEdt to follow the instructions and.. miracle!

Thanks a lot for your help. I hope it will work from now on!

cheers