[Tex/LaTex] How to set up the LaTeX document to enable me to cite from the BibTeX bibliography

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This may be an overly simplistic question but please bear with me…

I have a BibTeX bibliography containing all of my references, set up using BibDesk. I am now trying to cite these references in my LaTeX documents. Following the advice on the LaTeX wikibooks page, I have included the following lines into my LaTeX document…

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{/Users/Graeme/Documents/References/BIBliography.bib}

… where BIBliography is my .bib file, created in BibDesk.

Unfortunately, when I cite something in the document, using \cite{citekey} and typeset the document, the log tells me that there were undefined references. In the .pdf that is produced, there is a [?] where the references should be.

Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to store my .bib for in a particular location? I know there can be some errors that mean you need to typeset the document several times, but I have tried countless times to no avail.

I would be very grateful if someone could help out.

Best Answer

Make sure that after every change in your BibTeX file you do this:

Run LaTeX
Run BibTeX
Run LaTeX
Run LaTeX

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MWE:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@article{author2000,
  author  = {AuthorA},
  title   = {Title of Article},
  journal = {Name of Journal},
  year    = {2000},
}
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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}

\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[%
% style=authoryear
  style=apa,
 ,sortcites=true
 ,backend=biber         % to force biblatex to use biber
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareLanguageMapping{dutch}{dutch-apa}


\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Can you please run it on your system? If you have problems please check the versions on your computer of LaTeX, Biber, Biblatex and tell it us ...

Don't forget to compile LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX, LaTeX.

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