[texhax] problems with placing references

[Lars Madsen]

Geert Scholma :

> hi tug,
>
> I use Texshop 2 (2.04) with bibdesk 1.2.6 (v302). I have only 1 bib
> file, which is iesthesis.bib and it is in the same folder as the tex
> file itself. When I try to put three references in my document, only
> the middle one (which I inserted some time ago), works.
>
> \cite{TRS}\\
> \cite{NGP}\\
> \cite{DMS}\\
>
> \bibliographystyle{plain}
> \bibliography{iesthesis.bib}
>
> These are the warnings:
> LaTeX Warning: Citation `TRS' on page 3 undefined on input line 30.
> LaTeX Warning: Citation `DMS' on page 3 undefined on input line 32.
>
> I triple checked the names of the citations, and I cannot think of
> anything more that I do wrong. Do I have to update the library, or do
> something else? Could you please help me through this difficult
> first-time-user experience?
>

have you remembered to rerun bibtex?

Whenever you cite something that has not been cited before you have to do

latex, bibtex, latex, latex

for the references tobecome fully updated.



/daleif

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