Re: Problem with citations in an article

[Paul A. Rubin]

Andrew Morrison wrote:
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:03, Caspar wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to include BibTeX references in a standard article but 
failing. (Using LyX 1.3.5 on mac OSX)

I have a bib database file that I generated in BibDesk. I insert this 
into my document (Insert // Lists & TOC // BibTeX Reference..)  LyX 
then lets me insert citations from the database into the body of my 
document but when I generate the PDF, all I see are question marks in 
square brackets.

I am getting a similar behavior, although for my document, only about a
quarter of the citation references are coming through as question marks.
This is very frustrating.  Can anyone suggest a place to start looking?
Thanks!
No citations: I would check the temp directory (while the document was 
open in LyX, after having generated a DVI or PDF or whatever), and check 
whether the .aux and .bbl files exist there.  If yes, maybe it's a 
permissions problem(?).  If no, either there's a problem with the .bib 
file or BiBTeX simply isn't running.  To test the former, you could 
export the document as LaTeX and then manually run latex, bibtex, latex 
on it to see what you get.

Some citations but not all:  Sounds like a flawed .bib file, maybe? 
Again, I would start by exporting to LaTeX and running latex, bibtex, 
latex manually.  If the problem persists, it's likely to be in the .bib 
file rather than a LyX issue.  Look over the .bib file, and if you can't 
find a problem, try deleting entries from the .bib file until the 
missing citations (less, obviously, the one you deleted) show up.

-- Paul
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