I am trying the ACM conference template … they have a separate .bib file, which I have never used.
First on Google Scholar I am researching the paper. Then open ref style–>click on bibTex–>
then copying this
@article{maskin1999nash,
title={Nash equilibrium and welfare optimality},
author={Maskin, Eric},
journal={The Review of Economic Studies},
volume={66},
number={1},
pages={23--38},
year={1999},
publisher={Wiley-Blackwell} }
and pasted in my .bib file (sample-bibliography.bib). Then in the main file I am using \bibliography{sample-bibliography}
to print a reference in the reference section, but the problem is it is not printing the reference …
Best Answer
Only cited works in a
.bib
file are printed in the bibliography. So you need to either cite the work (using\cite{maskin1999nash}
for an in-text citation or\nocite{maskin1999nash}
to force the work in the reference work even though there's no in-text citation).Of course, you don't indicate whether you've run BibTeX to generate the
.bbl
file which is what's actually responsible for producing a bibliography. You need to run BibTeX after a LaTeX run that had a version of your LaTeX file, and then re-run LaTeX to actually get the biblography.