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For some reason, I am not able to do any citations or even my bibliography. I get a "[BibTeX] finished with exit code 2" message when I compile in Kile. Yet, all seems to be ok in my bibliography.

Here is what I'm doing in my document:

\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{/home/my/path/to/library/test} \end{document}

Which outputs

this

Here is what my library has (yes, only one reference for testing purposes)

@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} }

and I'm compiling by doing PDFLatex > Bibtex >pdflatex > pdflatex >viewpdf. Could someone please help me out?

Thank you in advance!

Edit: here is part of Bibtex's output to the file .blg

... The top-level auxiliary file: test.aux I couldn't open style file authordate1.bst ---line 2 of file test.aux : \bibstyle{authordate1 : } I'm skipping whatever remains of this command I found no style file---while reading file test.aux You've used 1 entry, ...
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  • Your files work without error (I just changed the path to test.bib) Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:05
  • Then I really have no idea what is wrong.. Maybe natbib is not correctly installed? Also, I tried having the bibliography file in the same location as the latex file, and it doesn't work. Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:07
  • Try it first with just \bibliography{test} with test.bib being in the current directory. Also try it directly on the command line rather than through an IDE. Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:07
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    bibtex will leave a .blg log file. What does it say? Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:08
  • I'll post in the main message Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:12

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The bibtex log shows you are missing the bibtex style your document specifies.

In TL2013 If I run the command

 kpsewhich authordate1.bst

Then it shows that style is located at

/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/beebe/authordate1.bst

You could get the file from ctan but it should be more easily installable via whatever package system your tex distribution is using.

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    Indeed, after installing the style it worked perfectly! :) (in case someone is wondering, I installed by searching texlive-bibtex-extra in Synaptic). Thanks! Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:39
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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}
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  • I also get the correct output out of your link, but not out of kile. @JLDiaz no, I'm not including .bib Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 15:15
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I think kile is printing the version number of biber as exit code. Also logs in blg file does not show any errors.

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