[Tex/LaTex] multiple bibliographies in thesis

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I am writing my PhD thesis using TeXmaker. 

%---------------------Preamble---------------%
\documentclass[b5paper,twoside,10pt,openany]{book}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}       
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[bitstream-charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{chapterbib}
\pagenumbering{gobble}                      
\usepackage{graphicx}                       
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}     
\providecommand\phantomsection{}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}

%---------------------Document starts here---------------%
\begin{document}

\input{titlepage}
\input{dedication}
\input{abstract}

%---------------------Chapters in the thesis---------------%

\input{chapter1}
\input{chapter2}

%------------------------------------%

\end{document} 

%------------------------------------%

within each chapter: a separate bibliography and bibliography style (unsrt) is defined.

When I do: bibtex chapter1, I get an error:

Process started I couldn't open file name `chapter1.aux'
Process exited normally.

Can anyone help?

Best Answer

Using biblatex will give you more or less the power and benefits from all specialized packages combined in one, the only drawback is that many journals do not accept biblatex, but in my experience that is also the case for bibtex. For your PhD thesis, you are free to choose, so I would recommend biblatex, because it is powerful and flexible.

Below is a working example, mainly copied form Herberts example.
You just have to run pdflatex-biber-pdflatex to see the output.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{filecontents}
%
\begin{filecontents*}{chap1.tex}
\chapter{Introduction}  
 \blindtext~\parencite{bertram} 
 \blindtext~\textcite{doody}
 \printbibliography[segment=1,heading=subbibliography]
\end{filecontents*}
%
\begin{filecontents*}{chap2.tex}
\chapter{Grundlagen} 
 \blindtext~\citep{aksin} 
 \blindtext~\citet{glashow}
\printbibliography[segment=2,heading=subbibliography]
\end{filecontents*}

\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\usepackage[refsegment=chapter,style=numeric,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\usepackage[]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true}

\begin{document}
\include{chap1}
\input{chap2}
\end{document}

Some more comments: biblatex does not use the aux file, so you can use include or input as you prefer. biblatex-examples.bibis a file that is included with all major distributions, use a different name for your own .bib file.

If you want to learn more, take a look at these examples or start reading some of the biblatex questions, for example this one or this one.

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