[texhax] problems with placing references

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> > [snip]
> > file itself. When I try to put three references in my document, only
> > the middle one (which I inserted some time ago), works.
> >
> > \cite{TRS}\\
> > \cite{NGP}\\
> > \cite{DMS}\\
> >
> > \bibliographystyle{plain}
> > \bibliography{iesthesis.bib}
> >
> > These are the warnings:
> > LaTeX Warning: Citation `TRS' on page 3 undefined on input line 30.
> > LaTeX Warning: Citation `DMS' on page 3 undefined on input line 32.
> >
> > I triple checked the names of the citations, and I cannot think of
> > anything more that I do wrong. Do I have to update the library, or do
> > something else? Could you please help me through this difficult
> > first-time-user experience?
> >
>
> have you remembered to rerun bibtex?

Lars meant "rerun latex".

> Whenever you cite something that has not been cited before you have to do
>
> latex, bibtex, latex, latex

If Lars' comments don't help, have a look at the .blg file - the log file
produced by BibTeX.