Check the path of your bibliography (\bibliography{/home/my/path/to/library/test}), when i'm not wrong then the path is relative to your main latex file.

Check the path of your bibliography (\bibliography{/home/my/path/to/library/test}), when i'm not wrong then the path is relative to your main latex file.

When i throw all the content in one file, it seems to work:

\begin{filecontents}{bib.bib} @article{CHANCE1952, author = {Chance, B. and Greenstein, D. S. and Roughton, F. J.}, title = {The mechanism of catalase action. I. Steady-state analysis}, journal = {Arch Biochem Biophys}, volume = {37}, number = {2}, pages = {301-21}, note = {CHANCE, B GREENSTEIN, D S ROUGHTON, F J W Not Available Arch Biochem Biophys. 1952 Jun;37(2):301-21.}, keywords = {*Oxidoreductases Testis/*anatomy & histology}, year = {1952} } \end{filecontents} \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{article} \pagestyle{plain} \usepackage[sort,round]{natbib} %package for bibliography \bibliographystyle{authordate1}%unsrtnat sets as sorted by order of appearance \begin{document} \section{This is a section} Citation: \nocite{*} Citation with something: \citep{CHANCE1952} \section{Bibliography} \bibliography{bib} \end{document} 

Check the path of your bibliography (\bibliography{/home/rui/Dropbox/RuiMSBGLaptop/test}), when i'm not wrong then the path is relative to your main latex file.

Check the path of your bibliography (\bibliography{/home/my/path/to/library/test}), when i'm not wrong then the path is relative to your main latex file.