My name is J.T. in this board. I am a senior student in a Japanese university, and writing a thesis for my graduation using Texpad. When I change the way to manage bibliography; I wrote bibliography directly on a .tex file before, but I wanted to manage .bib file.
I made a .bib file. My graduate thesis is in Japanese so I set pLaTeX->dvipdfmx + BibTeX for compiling. In the end of .tex file, I wrote
\bibliographystyle{jplain}
\bibliography{bibliography}
,where jplain is a Japanese plain style including Japanese articles or books in .bib file. I saved the .bib file as bibliography.bib.
I pressed typeset button, but the place where I cited was [?] and there is no bibliography space in the pdf file. I checked the same directory where the .tex file placed. .bbl file has been created in the directory but there is no characters just made a file.
P.S. I read theses written in English but I don't write English so you
may confuse this. But I was wondering if you could help the problem.
Best Answer
What I found has helped me (when I get an empty or non-existant .bbl, .blg, or other auxiliary files while using a graphical TeX editor) is to run each command separately.
That is, instead of using a predefined command string (e.g.,
pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex -> pdflatex
) or the default compile or compile & view button, literally run each command in your sequence by itself and inspect the resulting issues/log file. You may not see errors directly related to the generation of your .blg or .bbl files unless you runbibtex
,biber
, etc. by itself.See this link for helpful tips on troubleshooting bibliography issues.