BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Use of \@year@ doesn't match its definition.

[faun]

Good day,

Everytime I try to use Bibtex for my references I get the same error.

Use of \@year@ doesn't match its definition.

You can find information in the screenshots here:

The Error:
http://i.imm.io/QPY5.jpeg

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My BIB-file
http://i.imm.io/QPY2.jpeg

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Just for information, here is my latex code:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{parskip}					%paragraph ruimte
\usepackage{a4wide}                     % Iets meer tekst op een bladzijde
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}               % Voor nederlandstalige hyphenatie (woordsplitsing)
\usepackage{amsmath}                    % Uitgebreide wiskundige mogelijkheden
\usepackage{amssymb}                    % Voor speciale symbolen zoals de verzameling Z, R...
\usepackage{apacite}					% APA citaten!
\usepackage{makeidx}                    % Om een index te maken
\usepackage{url}                        % Om url's te verwerken
\usepackage{titlesec}					% hoofdstukken dinges
\usepackage{graphicx}                   % Om figuren te kunnen verwerken
\usepackage[small,bf,hang]{caption}     % Om de captions wat te verbeteren
\usepackage{xspace}                     % Magische spaties na een commando
\usepackage{float}                      % Om nieuwe float environments aan te maken. Ook optie H!
\usepackage{flafter}                    % Opdat floats niet zouden voorsteken
\usepackage{listings}                   % Voor het weergeven van letterlijke text en codelistings
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}		% Bibliografie en inhoudsopgave in ToC; zie tocbibind.dvi
\usepackage{eurosym}                    % om het euro symbool te krijgen
\usepackage{textcomp}                   % Voor onder andere graden celsius
\usepackage{fancyhdr}                   % Voor fancy headers en footers
\usepackage[Gray,squaren,thinqspace,thinspace]{SIunits} % Om elegant eenheden te zetten
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}          % Voor elegante scheikundige formules
\usepackage{setspace}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}

\begin{document}

\chapter{chapter1}

Some random text

\citeA{ganser}


\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{example}


\end{document}

Latex code for my BIB-file:

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@book{ganser,
   author = {DANIELE, G.},
   title = {NATO's Secret Army: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe},
   publisher = {Routledge},
   year = {2005}
}

[CrazyHorse]

Everytime I try to use Bibtex for my references I get the same error.

Use of \@year@ doesn't match its definition.

the package apacite requires the bst file of the same name:

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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{ganser,
author = {DANIELE, G.},
title = {NATO's Secret Army: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe},
publisher = {Routledge},
year = {2005},
}
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[dutch]{babel} 
\usepackage{apacite}
\begin{document}

\chapter{chapter1}
Some random text

\citeA{ganser}

\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

And by the way: you should use package geometry for setting margins instead of the deprecated a4wide.

[faun]

Still not working.
Used this code now:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{book}
    \usepackage{parskip}                                    %paragraph ruimte
    \usepackage{a4wide}                     % Iets meer tekst op een bladzijde
    \usepackage[dutch]{babel}               % Voor nederlandstalige hyphenatie (woordsplitsing)
    \usepackage{amsmath}                    % Uitgebreide wiskundige mogelijkheden
    \usepackage{amssymb}                    % Voor speciale symbolen zoals de verzameling Z, R...
    \usepackage{apacite}                                    % APA citaten!
    \usepackage{makeidx}                    % Om een index te maken
    \usepackage{url}                        % Om url's te verwerken
    \usepackage{titlesec}                                   % hoofdstukken dinges
    \usepackage{graphicx}                   % Om figuren te kunnen verwerken
    \usepackage[small,bf,hang]{caption}     % Om de captions wat te verbeteren
    \usepackage{xspace}                     % Magische spaties na een commando
    \usepackage{float}                      % Om nieuwe float environments aan te maken. Ook optie H!
    \usepackage{flafter}                    % Opdat floats niet zouden voorsteken
    \usepackage{listings}                   % Voor het weergeven van letterlijke text en codelistings
    \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}          % Bibliografie en inhoudsopgave in ToC; zie tocbibind.dvi
    \usepackage{eurosym}                    % om het euro symbool te krijgen
    \usepackage{textcomp}                   % Voor onder andere graden celsius
    \usepackage{fancyhdr}                   % Voor fancy headers en footers
    \usepackage[Gray,squaren,thinqspace,thinspace]{SIunits} % Om elegant eenheden te zetten
    \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}          % Voor elegante scheikundige formules
    \usepackage{setspace}
    \setlength{\headheight}{15pt}

    \begin{document}

    \chapter{chapter1}

    Some random text

    \citeA{ganser}


    \bibliographystyle{apacite}
    \bibliography{example}


    \end{document}

I don't understand the error. Why couldn't they the error more clearer to understand?

Also, I pasted your code and I ran into a bunch of errors as well.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Still not working.

What does this mean? Do you get the same error message, or a different error message? What happened?

Also, I pasted your code and I ran into a bunch of errors as well.

Perhaps tell us the error messages. Otherwise the comment is pretty useless.

Both Herbert and your code work for me. I got error messages (macros already defined) but this was fixed after I updated apacite, earlier versions had compatibility issues with babel.

Stefan

[faun]

Same error message as in the screenshot:
Use of \@year@ doesn't match its definition.

What does that message mean exactly?

Not at home at this moment. I'll try again and give the error messages whwen I get home.


Thanks for your help.

[faun]

First of all, happy new year to all.

Both codes say : "citation "ganser" undefined" after running in latex.

[CrazyHorse]

First of all, happy new year to all.

Here the error for the code from CrazyHorse:
http://i.imm.io/RgJd.jpeg

It seems to me he sees the citation undefined, but it is for sure in the file.

For _every_ first run a citation is _undefined_. And that is not an error it
is warning which is far different. All documents with citations or refences needs at least _two_ latex runs.

[faun]

I've runned it already a dozen times. I get the same warning over and over.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Did you run BibTeX? Besides compiling with LaTeX, you need to run BibTeX on the file, either via your editor (some can do it) or via the command line (bibtex documentname), another LaTeX run is required afterwards, to get the references.

Stefan

[faun]

I am not sure I did. I'll try when I get home.

So I first need to run bibtex on test.bib, which was created during the first process?

Then I need to run latex again on my code from CrazyHorse?