Hello everybody,
I have a problem with BibTex, I use texmaker and have made a .bib-file for my bibliography that is named ref.bib, it looks as following:
@Article{Cal2000,
author = {Calude, Andreea S.},
title = {The journey of the four colour theorem through time},
journal = {The New Zealand Mathematics Magazine},
year = {2001},
OPTvolume = {38},
OPTnumber = {3},
OPTpages = {27-35},
}
In my main file I input the lines:
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{ref}
But when I look at the result it only shows author name, title of the article and the year, not the page numbers, volume number or number, and I do not know how to change this so it does show this...
Anybody knows how to fix this?
Thanks in advance
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Bibliography list not showing page numbers
Please explain these entries to me because I don't know where they come from. And without this knowledge it is difficult to give specific help.
For code in any shape, please use the code environment to keep a post clear.
Edit:
These kind of entries seem to be optional. But I couldn't yet find some documentation about that. Extending your code snippets to a minimal working example (MWE), the following works fine for me.
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Thorsten¹
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OPTvolume = {38},OPTnumber = {3},OPTpages = {27-35},
Edit:
These kind of entries seem to be optional. But I couldn't yet find some documentation about that. Extending your code snippets to a minimal working example (MWE), the following works fine for me.
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Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{filecontents*}{sample.bib}@article{Cal2000,author = {Calude, Andreea S.},title = {The journey of the four colour theorem through time},journal = {The New Zealand Mathematics Magazine},year = {2001},volume = {38},number = {3},pages = {27-35},}\end{filecontents*}\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\usepackage{babel}\begin{document}\nocite{*}\bibliographystyle{plain}\bibliography{sample}\end{document}
Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹
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Re: Bibliography list not showing page numbers
Thank you,
this does in fact fix the problem, sorry about not posting code in a code box, it was my first time posting on the forums:).
And yes, the entries are optional.
this does in fact fix the problem, sorry about not posting code in a code box, it was my first time posting on the forums:).
And yes, the entries are optional.