BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Empty Bibliography and undefined Citations

[janjakob2007]

Dear community,

I want to create as simple bibliography but something goes wrong so that I get the message below.

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No file listbib.bbl.
[1{/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./listbib.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 )</usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb
></usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on listbib.pdf (1 page, 24679 bytes).
SyncTeX written on listbib.synctex.gz.
Transcript written on listbib.log.

Where are the mistakes? Maybe I need to modify the "path"? If so, how should I proceed?.


Thank in advance,
Jean

[Johannes_B]

Did you run BibTeX on the file? Afterwards you need to run LaTeX twice more.

[janjakob2007]

Thank you very much for your answer. Yes, I did the following.

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latex listbib.tex
bibtex mybib.bib
listbib.tex
listbib.tex

But in the second step, I get this message.

I couldn't open file name `mybib1.aux'.

I'm using TeXworks -for first time- on Mac OS. As I'm new in TeXworks, Mac and LaTeX I cannot figure out were the mistake is.


Thanks in advance for any help
JJ

[Johannes_B]

Did you run BibTeX on the file?

Well, seems i wasn't clear enough. You need to run LaTeX and BibTeX on the same base name, which is in your example "listbib". So you need to have your source file (*.tex) open when clicking the BibTeX button.

LaTeX creates "listbib.aux" (auxiliary file) from "listbib.tex", BibTeX uses this aux file to extract only the relevant parts of the bibliography (*.bib) to create the bibliography (*.bbl), which in turn is read by LaTeX again to print the actual bibliography.

It is pretty easy once you understand the workflow.


Best regards
Johannes


PS: You said you are new to LaTeX. I advise you to read some introductory material.
PPS: Sometimes you may need to use the terminal. Have a look at Mac terminal. There might be some interesting information.

[janjakob2007]

Thank you very much for all advice. It is working as I wanted.


Jean