General ⇒ Problem using BibTex in TexnicCenter

[mich3lag9]

Good Morning everyone,

I am writing a Master Thesis and I finally arrived at the last step: bibliography. I have read through the web that using BibTex is easier and more rapid but everytime I try to insert the biblio.bib file in MG.tex one nothing appears and I cannot understand why.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openamy]{book}\setlength\textheight{247mm}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[square]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\begin{document}

All the stuff


\bibliography{biblio}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\end{document}

Once I build the output file there is one error message display like the one attached. Does anyone know why??

Thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome, it seems you are using two different \bibliographystyle commands, which confuses BibTeX quite a bit. Choose one of them.

But on the other hand, using bibliographystyles will feel like getting the flintstones to build airplanes when it comes to changing the output. It involves changing files written in a weird language. If you want to stay up to date, use the more modern package biblatex in conjunction with the bibtex replacement biber. If you want to change the appearance there, this is quite easy using just LaTeX commands. Of course, you need a bit of time there as well.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

Did Johannes' advice help? I also support the tipp to use biblatex with biber. It's not harder, but much more flexible. We could help with first steps. BibTeX is just the classic, but still ok to use, of course. At an early stage of the bibliography, it's the best time to choose the way.

Stefan