BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ aux file truncated

[latex phd]

Hi, I am new to Latex and I am trying to use it to write my phd thesis.

I have a large document linked to a jabref bibliography and I am using natbib.
The preamble is

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\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\chapter{INTRODUCTION}

The error I get has just started, even though I have been working on this document for weeks. When I first open the tex file I can run pdflatex and get the pdf with no refs, but when I run bibtex I get the following error

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Runaway argument?
{Maraia19 
! File ended while scanning use of \bibcite.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.6 \begin{document}

When I open up the aux file and go to the very end it is truncated and ends with Maraia19, even though the full reference is in the tex file.

Any ideas on why it is truncated would be great.

[cgnieder]

Hi and welcome to the LaTeX community!

I assume you have checked that the entry for Maraia19 in the bib file is correct (no missing comma, brace, ...)?

Can you please post a minimal working example that let's us reproduce the issue?

Regards

[latex phd]

I'm posting this in case it will help anyone else.

I created the minimal example, but I was rather desperate to get the problem fixed so I did two things which seemed to solve the problem.

Firstly, there was a problem with two of the references having the same author year, which meant that the index key in jabref didn't work.

I think what actually solved the problem though, was deleting the presence of '{\textquoteright}' in one of the references in my jabref bibliography.

I'm not really sure of this, but I changed these two things and now it works.

Just to highlight that it wasn't anything to do with the particular reference at the end of the aux file, the file just seemed to be truncated because the action timed out somehow.