[Tex/LaTex] \bibentry problem with chapterbib package

bibentrybibliographiesincludesubdividing

In my document I want to create a separate bibliography for each chapter. This works fine by using the chapterbib package. However, \bibentry does not work anymore in included files when invoking the chapterbib package. The MWE shows that the full cite is present in the main document, but does not show in the chapter.

\begin{filecontents}{mytestbib.bib}
@Article{einstein1911,
 author        = "Albert Einstein",
 title         = "On The influence of gravitation on the propagation of light",
 journal       = "Annalen Phys.",
 volume        = "35",
 pages         = "898-908",
 year          = "1911"}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{testchap.tex}
\chapter{light}
A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage[sectionbib]{chapterbib}
\nobibliography*

\begin{document}
A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.

\include{testchap}

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{document}

Best Answer

The subfiles need to have a \nobibliography* command included so that \bibentry works. In addition, you should really put the \bibliographystyle of the main file before any file inclusions. In your case it is not too important, but if you had different styles in the subfiles it would give a problem - each of the aux files for of the included files is read by bibtex and so it meets multiple \bibstyle commands, only the first one takes effect, hence the need of ordering the main file correctly.

This all works fine for the standard book class, however with scrbook you can not use the sectionbib option of chapterbib. EDTI See below for how to work around this

book.cls

Main part

Sample main part

Included chapter

Sample included chapter

\begin{filecontents}{mytestbib.bib}
@Article{einstein1911,
 author        = "Albert Einstein",
 title         = "On The influence of gravitation on the propagation of light",
 journal       = "Annalen Phys.",
 volume        = "35",
 pages         = "898-908",
 year          = "1911"}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{testchap.tex}
\nobibliography*

\chapter{Light}
A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage[sectionbib]{chapterbib}
\nobibliography*

\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}

A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.

\include{testchap}

\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{document}

scrbook.cls

For scrbook class the above will work fine, unless you pass the sectionbib option to chapterbib. This is because the sectionbib option attempts to patch the definition of thebibliography, but scrbook changes the standard definition. However, the effect of the sectionbib option may be optianed by issuing

\KOMAoption{bibliography}{leveldown}

in the preamble, which switches bibliogrpahies to be sections, and then \bib@leveldownfalse, appropriately escaped, before the main bibliography to make this a chapter.

\begin{filecontents}{mytestbib.bib}
@Article{einstein1911,
 author        = "Albert Einstein",
 title         = "On The influence of gravitation on the propagation of light",
 journal       = "Annalen Phys.",
 volume        = "35",
 pages         = "898-908",
 year          = "1911"}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{testchap.tex}
\nobibliography*

\chapter{Light}
A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.
\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{chapterbib}
\nobibliography*

\KOMAoption{bibliography}{leveldown}

\begin{document}
\bibliographystyle{apalike}

A full in-text cite of \bibentry{einstein1911}.\\
A regular citation: \citep{einstein1911}.

\include{testchap}

\makeatletter
\bib@leveldownfalse
\makeatother
\bibliography{mytestbib}
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] References by chapter and global references

To cite the documentation of chapterbib:

To have a cohesive bibliography for the whole document, plus individual bibs in the chapters, put \bibliography commands in the included chapters plus in the root file; use \usepackage[rootbib]{chapterbib}; run LaTeX; run BibTeX on the root file; change to \usepackage{chapterbib}; run LaTeX; run BibTeX on each included file; run LaTeX; run LaTeX. This produces an independent 'overall' bibliography which only makes sense for various 'named' bibliography styles; a style with numbering will give unrelated numbers in each bibliography. Actually, you probably don't need to ever run with [rootbib] because, although bibTeX should complain about multiple \bibdata commands, it should produce all the right bbl files -- but the root \bibliographystyle must come first in the document.

[Tex/LaTex] Bibentry producing no citation

See comments on switching to biblatex and biber - if you want to keep using bibtex, read on.

You're missing a \nobibliography* command - see the documentation and here for details.

But even with the \nobibliography* command there is no output of \bibentry - this seems to be a problem with the agsm style since switching to plain style does fix the problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib, bibentry}
%\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @article{Bloggs1950,
        author = "{Bloggs}, {Joseph K.}",
        journal = "International Journal of Dubious Assertions",
        pages = "337-629",
        title = "{Misusing Scientific Terminology for Fun and Profit}",
        volume = "202",
        year = "1950"
    }
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
    \nobibliography*
    Citation: \cite{Bloggs1950}.
    This is supposed to cite in full. Instead I get nothing! \bibentry{Bloggs1950}
    \bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

fixed result

The problem is indeed with the format of the .bbl file created with the agsm style - compare the created .bbl:

\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{Bloggs1950}
{Joseph K.} {Bloggs}.
\newblock {Misusing Scientific Terminology for Fun and Profit}.
\newblock {\em International Journal of Dubious Assertions}, 202:337--629,
  1950.

\end{thebibliography}

with the format mentioned in the documentation under '4. Caveats':

\bibitem[<label>]{<key>}
Text of the reference entry.
\bibitem

they obviously don't fit.