I am creating a lab report and am trying to add a bibliography at the end. I am fairly new to LaTeX and am not sure what is the case when I receive the missing \item message. My main .tex code is:
\documentclass[journal, a4paper]{ieeetran}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage[margin=0.4in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\title{Lab 12N Report \LaTeX}
\author{Jeremy Wolfe}
\maketitle
\bibliographystyle{ieeetran}
\bibliography{LabReportBib}
\end{document}
My .bib file, named LabReportBib is:
@misc{libretexts_2018, title={Constant Pressure Calorimetry}, url={https://chem.libretexts.org/Textbook_Maps/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Thermodynamics/Calorimetry/Constant_Pressure_Calorimetry}, journal={Chemistry LibreTexts}, publisher={National Science Foundation}, author={Libretexts}, year={2018}, month={Nov}}
@misc{writing advice, title={Writing Advice Home},
url={http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/types-of-writing/lab-report/},
journal={Writing Advice}}
Any help on making this work would be greatly appreciated
UPDATE:
My used packages are:
*File List*
filecontents.sty 2018/05/30 v1.4 Create an external file from within a LaTeX
document
IEEEtran.cls 2015/08/26 V1.8b by Michael Shell
ot1ptm.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for OT1/ptm.
graphicx.sty 2017/06/01 v1.1a Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
keyval.sty 2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty 2017/06/25 v1.2c Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
trig.sty 2016/01/03 v1.10 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg 2016/06/04 v1.11 sample graphics configuration
pdftex.def 2018/01/08 v1.0l Graphics/color driver for pdftex
url.sty 2013/09/16 ver 3.4 Verb mode for urls, etc.
amsmath.sty 2017/09/02 v2.17a AMS math features
amstext.sty 2000/06/29 v2.01 AMS text
amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0 generic functions
amsbsy.sty 1999/11/29 v1.2d Bold Symbols
amsopn.sty 2016/03/08 v2.02 operator names
lettrine.sty 2018-08-28 v2.21 (Daniel Flipo)
minifp.sty 2013/12/30 v0.96. Macros for real number operations and a stack
-based programing language.
lettrine.cfg
subcaption.sty 2018/05/01 v1.1-162 Sub-captions (AR)
caption.sty 2018/10/06 v3.3-154 Customizing captions (AR)
caption3.sty 2018/09/12 v1.8c caption3 kernel (AR)
gensymb.sty 2003/07/02 v1.0 (WaS)
geometry.sty 2018/04/16 v5.8 Page Geometry
ifpdf.sty 2017/03/15 v3.2 Provides the ifpdf switch
ifvtex.sty 2016/05/16 v1.6 Detect VTeX and its facilities (HO)
ifxetex.sty 2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
geometry.cfg
supp-pdf.mkii
epstopdf-base.sty 2016/05/15 v2.6 Base part for package epstopdf
infwarerr.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
grfext.sty 2016/05/16 v1.2 Manage graphics extensions (HO)
kvdefinekeys.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Define keys (HO)
ltxcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.23 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
kvoptions.sty 2016/05/16 v3.12 Key value format for package options (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty 2016/05/16 v1.17 Key value parser (HO)
etexcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.6 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
ifluatex.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty 2018/01/30 v0.27 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)
LRtest.bbl
Best Answer
From the given
bibfile I can see that you have an blank in the key name (writing advice) of an entry, which is not allowed. Change it toYou did not cite any entry in your code so I added
\nocite{*}to the following code:Please check your log file there are some warning resulting you should have a look at ... Check the log file
*.blgthat there are no warnings and errors inside. Correct all of them step by step ...The resulting pdf file is:
UPDATE:
My used system is:
and the used packages are: