[Tex/LaTex] Citations broken after clearing auxiliary files

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I am writing a thesis and I had all of the citations working correctly. However, as I was half way through a new chapter some of the new citations that I was adding showed up as missing citations e.g. '[1-3,??]', even though the corresponding bibtex entries were there. In the past, when something like this has happened, I have found that deleting the auxiliary files and recompiling usually fixes this (or sometimes just opening the .bib file works, as if it tells TeXStudio to update the .bib file). However, this time, after deleting the auxiliary files and recompiling, instead of fixing the missing citations, now ALL of the citations in the entire thesis (not just this chapter) are broken. Any idea what might cause this behavior? And, any suggestions to fix it?

I am using TeXStudio on a Windows PC, in case that makes any difference.

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I have no idea about texstudio but you have deleted the generated bibliography (bbl) so you need to run in order latex, bibtex, latex, latex, on your document to regenerate it.

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Bibtool is on CTAN. Not to be confused with bibtools which is also on CTAN and probably also has the capacity to do this sort of thing...

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Just to show you that xcite is not necceccary and how to build an MWE for your problem please check the following MWE (with commented xcite). It includes with package filecontents three chapter files and a bib file. If you copied this MWE into file mwe.tex then \jobname becomes mwe.

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{testxcite1.tex}
\chapter{Chapter One}
Text \cite{adams} 
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{testxcite2.tex}
\chapter{Chapter Two}
Text \cite{companion}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{testxcite3.tex}
\chapter{Chapter Three}
Text \cite{adams} \cite{companion}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{companion,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year       = {1994}
}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980}
}
\end{filecontents*}

\listfiles   % to show used packages and versions
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[authoryear,comma,nonamebreak,round,sort&compress]{natbib}
%\usepackage{xcite}

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
%\externalcitedocument{testxcite1}
%\externalcitedocument{testxcite2}
%\externalcitedocument{testxcite3}

\begin{document}
\include{testxcite1}
\include{testxcite2}
\include{testxcite3}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}

Compile this MWE with latex, bibtex, latex, latex and you will get a pdf file and four warnings, coming from package filecontents (they are okay and can be ignored). If you have still ? instead of a correct citation there is something other wrong with your system or way to build the pdf file.

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