[OS X TeX] bibliography and citation doesn't appear

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:50 AM, konstantinos vasilakos wrote:
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>> 
>>> 
>>> No, the BibDesk plugin is used to fill in \cite commands. To use it: 1)enable its use check TeXShop->Preferences->Source->Editor->BibDesk Completions; 2)Open the .bib file in BibDesk. 
>> The problem lies right here, I followed the above but this not seems to fix it. I dont know if I am doing something wrong with Bibdesk, ( opening new bibliography, loading some article to it, and the saving it as BibTex format in same folder with the rest ).
>>> 
>>> If your problem is that citations and the bibliography are not showing up after going through the processing I stated before, that has to do with a problem in your .tex file. We will have to see a sample file (or files) that shows your problem to figure out what is going on.
>> 
>> Also bibliography is not there, here is what I am typing to:
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>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{geometry}              
>> \geometry{a4paper}                                  
>> \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}   
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{epstopdf}
>> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}
>> 
>> \title{Title of My Article}  %Also my title doesn't appear at my preview file.
>> 
>> \author{Konstantinos Vasilakos} % either the name.
>> 
>> \date{29/3/2012}          %same for date.                                
>> 
>> \begin{document}
>> 
>> I am writing here for Sample Reasons\cite{cite-key}
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>> \nocite{cite-key} %Here I put the citation key.
>> 
>> \bibliographystyle{plain}
>> 
>> \bibliography{references}%this is the name of my .bib file without the extension.(in same folder with .tex) 
>> 
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> %Best \K.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Is the citation key for that citation really just called `cite-key' or is it something else? Could you include the .bib file?
> 
> As a side note: the way you include .tif(f) files is a bit different in recent versions of epstopdf. See the enclosed file for more information.
> 
> <EpsAndPdflatex2011.pdf>
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)


Howdy,

The front end (either AlphaX or TeXShop makes no difference. I notice that the cite key is now called `Hunt' not just `cite-key'. In TeXshop you should press the F5 key when inside the argument of the \cite command and, assuming that bib file is open in BibDesk, you'll get a list of citations.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)