http://www.jeos.org/index.php/jeos_rp/article/view/12033
I just use the bibtex, that you get when you click "cite this article" and changed the bibtex-Key to "Lipka2012".
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{Test.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{Lipka2012}
\end{document}
As long as the Abstract is in the Test.bib
, Biber fails and gives me the following message:
(CiteTest.aux) (CiteTest.bbl)
Runaway argument?
{This paper reports about hydrogenated amorphous silicon which can be\ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \field.
<inserted text>
\par
l.6 \begin{document}
?
So what's the matter and how can I resolve this? Deleting the abstract
field would be unfortunate.
The bib entry from the site with the changed bibtex-Key:
@Article{Lipka2012,
author = {T. Lipka and O. Horn and J. Amthor and J. Müller},
title = {Low-loss multilayer compatible a-Si:H optical thin films for photonic applications},
journal = {Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications},
year = {2012},
volume = {7},
number = {0},
issn = {1990-2573},
abstract = {This paper reports about hydrogenated amorphous silicon which can be employed as low-loss optical material for small footprint and cost-effective photonic integrated circuits. Basic waveguides, photonic wire based couplers, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, ring resonators and Mach-Zehnder assisted ring resonators were designed, fabricated, and optically characterised. The propagation loss of rib and photonic wire waveguides were determined to be 2 dB/cm and 5.3 dB/cm, respectively. The 90° bending losses of 5 µm curved photonic wires were determined to be 0.025 dB/90°. Three-dimensional tapers, which were fabricated without additional etching steps and were deposited on top of the fabricated photonic wires showed a net coupling loss of 4 dB/port. Multimode 3 dB-splitters were systematically investigated resulting in 49-51% splitting ratios. Mach-Zehnder interferometers that were realised with these splitters showed interference fringe depths of up to 25 dB for both polarisations. Compact ring resonators with 10 µm radius implemented as notch filters and in Mach-Zehnder coupled configurations provided extinction ratios of ≥20 dB and Q-factors up to 7500.},
keywords = {dielectric thin films; amorphous silicon; integrated optics; photonics; resonators},
url = {http://www.jeos.org/index.php/jeos_rp/article/view/12033},
}
Best Answer
If all you need to get accomplished is to prevent bibtex (or biblatex) from crashing, simply replace the instance of
%
in theabstract
field with\%
. Recall that%
is the comment character in TeX/LaTeX.If there's a chance that you may need to produce an extended bibliography, in which the abstracts of various publications are shown, it would be a good idea to replace edit the
abstract
field more thoroughly. E., replace several special characters --°
,µ
, and≥
, and probably a few others more -- with terms that LaTeX can process correctly. Also, consider making use of the\SI
macro (provided by thesiunitx
package) to typeset physical quantities and units correctly and consistently.The following MWE uses BibTeX and the
abstract
bibliography style, since that's the only bib style I'm aware of that typesets the contents of anyabstract
fields.