Ahh! I was just about to hit "send" with an email saying the same thing 
Christiaan says. Try it again without the url and see if it works---it's almost 
certain that it will---and then you'll know that you have to add 
\usepackage{url} (or something that does the same thing) to the template file.

Adam

On Dec 23, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> Did you read the warning in the log? It says you probably need a \usepackage. 
> You need one to define the \url command, as noted by the error message in the 
> log.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
> On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:00, Rafael Cruz wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm willing to use vancouver.bst as my BibDesk preview style. Here what I
>> did:
>> 
>>   * Installed MacTex-2010 (http://www.tug.org/mactex/)
>>   * Downloaded vancouver.bst
>> (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver/)
>>   * Manually created ~/Library/texfm/bibtex/bst/
>>   * Moved vancouver.bst to the folder above.
>>   * BibDesk Preferences>Tex Preview>BibTex style "vancouver" (without
>> cotes).
>> 
>> 
>> When I tried to use preview I got ***** ERROR:  unable to create preview
>> *****
>> 
>> Can I get some help? Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> PS: Sorry if its a beginner issue, I'm new to BibDesk/Tex.
>> 
>> Log output:
>> 
>>   TeX preview generation failed.  Please review the log below to determine
>> the cause.
>> 
>>   ***** WARNING: You are using a non-standard BibTeX style *****
>>   The style "vancouver" may require additional \usepackage commands to
>> function correctly.
>> 
>>   ---------- TeX log file ----------
>>   File:
>> "/var/folders/bp/bpFFpHUbGkC2UjLAfG5E-E+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.dlzzy0/bibpreview/bibpreview.log"
>>   This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>> (format=pdflatex 2010.12.15)  17 DEC 2010 09:43
>>   entering extended mode
>>    restricted \write18 enabled.
>>    %&-line parsing enabled.
>>   **bibpreview
>>   (./bibpreview.tex
>>   LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
>>   Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
>> nohyphenation, ge
>>   rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabic,
>> armenian
>>   , basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish,
>> dutch, u
>>   kenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french,
>> galician,
>>   german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, icelandic,
>> assamese,
>>    bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, oriya, panjabi,
>> tamil,
>>   telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji, lao, latin,
>> latvian,
>>    lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, polish,
>> portuguese, roma
>>   nian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,
>> turkish,
>>    turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>>   (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>>   Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
>>   (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
>>   File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>>   )
>>   \...@part=\count79
>>   \...@section=\count80
>>   \...@subsection=\count81
>>   \...@subsubsection=\count82
>>   \...@paragraph=\count83
>>   \...@subparagraph=\count84
>>   \...@figure=\count85
>>   \...@table=\count86
>>   \abovecaptionskip=\skip41
>>   \belowcaptionskip=\skip42
>>   \bibindent=\dimen102
>>   ) (./bibpreview.aux)
>>   \openout1 = `bibpreview.aux'.
>> 
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 14.
>>   LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 14.
>>   (./bibpreview.bbl
>>   ! Undefined control sequence.
>>   l.9 \newblock Available from: \url
>> 
>> {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/201482...
>>   The control sequence at the end of the top line
>>   of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>>   misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>>   spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>>   and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>> 
>> 
>>   Underfull \hbox (badness 2932) in paragraph at lines 4--10
>>   []\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 Hardie AD, Naik M, Hecht EM, Chan-darana H, Man-nelli
>> L, Babb
>>    JS, et al.  Di-ag-no-
>>    []
>> 
>> 
>>   Underfull \hbox (badness 1931) in paragraph at lines 4--10
>>   \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 sis of liver metas-tases: value of diffusion-weighted
>> MRI com-p
>>   ared with gadolinium-enhanced
>>    []
>> 
>> 
>>   Underfull \hbox (badness 2158) in paragraph at lines 4--10
>>   \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 MRI.  Eu-ro-pean Ra-di-ol-ogy. 2010
>> Jun;20(6):1431--1441.  PMID
>>   : 20148251.  Avail-able from:
>>    []
>> 
>>   ) [1
>> 
>>   {/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
>> (./bibp
>>   review.aux) )
>>   Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>>    212 strings out of 493747
>>    2328 string characters out of 3143545
>>    49070 words of memory out of 3000000
>>    3585 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
>>    4245 words of font info for 16 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
>>    714 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>>    23i,4n,19p,154b,108s stack positions out of
>> 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
>>   </usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm
>>   /cmr10.pfb>
>>   Output written on bibpreview.pdf (1 page, 21247 bytes).
>>   PDF statistics:
>>    12 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
>>    7 compressed objects within 1 object stream
>>    0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
>>    1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   ---------- BibTeX log file -------
>>   File:
>> "/var/folders/bp/bpFFpHUbGkC2UjLAfG5E-E+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.dlzzy0/bibpreview/bibpreview.blg"
>>   This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2010)
>>   Capacity: max_strings=35307, hash_size=35307, hash_prime=30011
>>   The top-level auxiliary file: bibpreview.aux
>>   The style file: vancouver.bst
>>   Reallocated glb_str_ptr (elt_size=4) to 20 items from 10.
>>   Reallocated global_strs (elt_size=5001) to 20 items from 10.
>>   Reallocated glb_str_end (elt_size=4) to 20 items from 10.
>>   Reallocated wiz_functions (elt_size=4) to 6000 items from 3000.
>>   Database file #1: bibpreview.bib
>>   You've used 1 entry,
>>               3146 wiz_defined-function locations,
>>               645 strings with 4804 characters,
>>   and the built_in function-call counts, 2664 in all, are:
>>   = -- 274
>>> -- 28
>>   < -- 0
>>   + -- 14
>>   - -- 7
>>   * -- 253
>>   := -- 327
>>   add.period$ -- 6
>>   call.type$ -- 1
>>   change.case$ -- 0
>>   chr.to.int$ -- 0
>>   cite$ -- 1
>>   duplicate$ -- 139
>>   empty$ -- 277
>>   format.name$ -- 8
>>   if$ -- 592
>>   int.to.chr$ -- 0
>>   int.to.str$ -- 1
>>   missing$ -- 16
>>   newline$ -- 10
>>   num.names$ -- 1
>>   pop$ -- 20
>>   preamble$ -- 1
>>   purify$ -- 0
>>   quote$ -- 0
>>   skip$ -- 28
>>   stack$ -- 0
>>   substring$ -- 591
>>   swap$ -- 37
>>   text.length$ -- 0
>>   text.prefix$ -- 0
>>   top$ -- 0
>>   type$ -- 0
>>   warning$ -- 0
>>   while$ -- 13
>>   width$ -- 2
>>   write$ -- 17
>> 
>> 
>>   ---------- BibDesk info ----------
>>   <BDSKTeXTask: 0x6bdd40> {
>>   ivars:
>>       delegate = "(null)"
>>       file name = "bibpreview"
>>       template = "/Users/LaaZ/Library/Application
>> Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex"
>>       TeX file =
>> "/var/folders/bp/bpFFpHUbGkC2UjLAfG5E-E+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.dlzzy0/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"
>>       BibTeX file =
>> "/var/folders/bp/bpFFpHUbGkC2UjLAfG5E-E+++TI/-Tmp-/bibdesk.dlzzy0/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"
>>       TeX binary path = "/usr/texbin"
>>       Encoding = "Western (ASCII)"
>>       BibTeX style = "vancouver"
>>       Helper files = (
>>   )
>> 
>>   environment:
>>       SHELL = "/bin/bash"
>>       BIBINPUTS = "(null)"
>>       BSTINPUTS = "(null)"
>>       PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/texbin" }
>> 
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