I am using Overleaf, and when I copied and pasted bibliography from a different project into a new one, I am getting errors and cannot figure out what's wrong. The errors I am getting are all Missing } inserted.
, Missing $ inserted.
or Extra }, or forgotten $.
They refer to some lines in the output.bbl
file.
My attempt so far: I manually went through process of elimination and narrowed it down to 4 problematic entries. I checked for underscores _
but they are all in the DOI/URL fields, and I tried checking for missing braces }
. When I add this new bibliography, I get the errors. I tried adding each of these one by one and they all individually cause errors. I noticed that all of these are @incollection
entries.
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-1,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {307--318},
author = {Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and Ronnie B. Wilbur},
title = {{ASL}-Pro: American Sign Language Animation with Prosodic Elements},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-44,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32},
year = {2012},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
pages = {205--212},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Thomas Hanke and John Glauert and Richard Bowden and Annelies Braffort and Christophe Collet and Petros Maragos and Fran{\c{c}}ois Lefebvre-Albaret},
title = {The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf},
booktitle = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-45,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_3},
year = {2009},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
pages = {21--30},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Christian Vogler and Thomas Hanke and John Glauert and Richard Bowden and Annelies Braffort and Christophe Collet and Petros Maragos and J{\'{e}}r{\'{e}}mie Segouat},
title = {Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Modelling: A Research Effort with Applications in Deaf Communication},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity}
}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-46,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_33},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_33},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {351--361},
author = {Eleni Efthimiou and Stavroula-Evita Fotinea and Theodore Goulas and Panos Kakoulidis},
title = {User Friendly Interfaces for Sign Retrieval and Sign Synthesis},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
I checked the .bst
file that I have, searched for inproceedings
and I found this:
FUNCTION { incollection }
{
output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output % added
output.year.check % added
new.block
format.articletitle "title" output.check
new.block
crossref missing$
{ format.in.ed.booktitle "booktitle" output.check
new.sentence % jtb: start a new sentence for series/volume
format.bvolume output
format.number.series output
new.sentence
publisher "publisher" output.check
address "address" output.check % jtb: require address
format.bookpages output
format.chapter.pages output % gnp - was special.output.nonnull
% left out comma before page numbers
% jtb: moved from before publisher
}
{
format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
format.chapter.pages output
}
if$
fin.block
output.issue.doi.coden.isxn.lccn.url.note
fin.entry
}
FUNCTION { inproceedings }
{
output.bibitem
format.authors "author" output.check
author format.key output % added
output.year.check % added
new.block
format.articletitle "title" output.check
howpublished output.dot.space
crossref missing$
{
journal missing$ % jtb: proceedings appearing in journals
{ format.in.emphasize.booktitle "booktitle" output.check.dot.space
format.series output.removenospace
format.editors.fml output % BV 2011/09/27 Moved dot to comma
format.bvolume.noseries output
new.sentence
organization output
publisher "publisher" output.check % jtb: require publisher (?)
address "address" output.check % jtb: require address
format.bookpages output
}
{
format.in.booktitle format.city "booktitle" output.check
format.editors.fml output
new.sentence
format.journal.volume.number.day.month.year output
}
if$
format.articleno output
format.pages.check.without.articleno output
}
{
format.incoll.inproc.crossref output.nonnull
format.articleno output
format.pages.check.without.articleno output
}
if$
format.articleno.numpages output
fin.block
output.issue.doi.coden.isxn.lccn.url.note
fin.entry
}
EDIT: added MWE to reproduce error:
SIGCHI-Reference-Format.bst
: https://controlc.com/6d1ed4fb
.tex
file:
\begin{filecontents*}{bib.bib}
@incollection{old-nsf-proposal-1,
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20681-3_29},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
pages = {307--318},
author = {Nicoletta Adamo-Villani and Ronnie B. Wilbur},
title = {{ASL}-Pro: American Sign Language Animation with Prosodic Elements},
booktitle = {Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[letterpaper, 11pt, oneside, openright, draft]{book}
\usepackage{url}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3802/how-to-get-doi-links-in-bibliography#3803
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/forcing-linebreaks-in-url
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage[linktoc=all, pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
pdfdisplaydoctitle=true, % For Accessibility
pdfstartview={FitH}, % https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3450/make-pdf-open-in-fill-window-mode-with-hyperref/7251
colorlinks=true,
pdflang={en},
extension=pdf,
plainpages=false,
pdfpagelayout=SinglePage,
bookmarksnumbered,
breaklinks=true,
hypertexnames=true,
citecolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
filecolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
linkcolor=blue, % TODO change to black for final version (this makes it easy to check for unfinished links
urlcolor=blue,
final % to avoid draft mode for hyperref
}
\usepackage{doi} % this must be loaded AFTER hyperref!
\begin{document}
Testing... Citing \cite{old-nsf-proposal-1}.
\bibliographystyle{SIGCHI-Reference-Format}
\bibliography{bib}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Thanks to the commenters!
What I ended up doing: I could not find a good source for the
SIGCHI-Reference-Format.bst
file online, so I changed it to theACM-Reference-Format.bst
from CTAN here.For reference, I have created a diffchecker link to compare the version of
SIGCHI-Reference-Format.bst
I had (18 January 2012) with the current version of theACM-Reference-Format.bst
(at time of writing, 14 June 2017): https://www.diffchecker.com/m8087IzbTo use the
ACM-Reference-Format.bst
file, I had to add\usepackage{natbib}
to my preamble. I also added\setcitestyle{numbers,square}
to use numbers enclosed in square brackets.