Compiling LaTex bib source

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I am writing my thesis in Latex  and I have the references in an own thesis bib file which look as follows   Article xxx    author          D A  Reinhard     title           Case Study     year            1985       and I reference them in my main document as   cite xxx   When I compile then the main document with  pdflatex main tex than it shows me question marks instead of the proper references to the bibliography  Do I also need to compile the bib source on its own  If yes  can somebody please tell me the command for Linux  Many thanks

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You need to compile the bibtex file   Suppose you have article tex and article bib  You need to run    latex article tex  this will generate a document with question marks in place of unknown references  bibtex article  this will parse all the  bib files that were included in the article and generate metainformation regarding references  latex article tex  this will generate document with all the references in the correct places  latex article tex  just in case if adding references broke page numbering somewhere

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Just in case it helps someone  since these questions  and answers  helped me really much  I decided to create an alias that runs these 4 commands in a row   Just add the following line to your    bashrc file  modify the main keyword accordingly to the name of your  tex and  bib files   alias texbib    pdflatex main tex  amp  amp  bibtex main  amp  amp  pdflatex main tex  amp  amp  pdflatex main tex    And now  by just executing the texbib command  alias   all these commands will be executed sequentially

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I am using texmaker as the editor  you have to compile it in terminal as following    pdflatex filename  with or without extensions  bibtex filename  without extensions  pdflatex filename  with or without extensions  pdflatex filename  with or without extensions    but sometimes  when you use  citep    the names of the references don t show up  In this case  I had to open the references bib file   so that texmaker could capture the references from the references bib file  After every edition of the bib file  I had to close and reopen it   So that texmaker could capture the content of new  bbl file each time  But remember  you have to also run your code in texmaker too

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You have to run   bibtex    latex paper tex bibtex paper latex paper tex latex paper tex dvipdf paper dvi

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