General ⇒ How to create refers in article using BibTex and Texnic cntr

[marmias]

How can I use references in my article using Bibtex and texnic center for Windows?

I created a "references.bib" file (in the same folder as my article's "article.tex" latex file).
"references.bib" is my references database.


I have included the commands

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv, references}

in "article.tex".

I use the Latex=>PDF option to build my files. (bibtex and makeindex are enabled for this output profile)


However when I do it, the resulting "article.bbl" file is not created correctly (the compiler says that a \begin{document} is missing in the bbl file...)

Specifically, the resulting "article.bbl" contains the following:

% Generated by IEEEtran.bst, version: 1.12 (2007/01/11)
\begin{thebibliography}{}
\providecommand{\url}[1]{#1}
\csname url@samestyle\endcsname
\providecommand{\newblock}{\relax}
\providecommand{\bibinfo}[2]{#2}
\providecommand{\BIBentrySTDinterwordspacing}{\spaceskip=0pt\relax}
\providecommand{\BIBentryALTinterwordstretchfactor}{4}
\providecommand{\BIBentryALTinterwordspacing}{\spaceskip=\fontdimen2\font plus
\BIBentryALTinterwordstretchfactor\fontdimen3\font minus
\fontdimen4\font\relax}
\providecommand{\BIBforeignlanguage}[2]{{%
\expandafter\ifx\csname l@#1\endcsname\relax
\typeout{** WARNING: IEEEtran.bst: No hyphenation pattern has been}%
\typeout{** loaded for the language `#1'. Using the pattern for}%
\typeout{** the default language instead.}%
\else
\language=\csname l@#1\endcsname
\fi
#2}}
\providecommand{\BIBdecl}{\relax}
\BIBdecl

\end{thebibliography}




In the resultant "article.pdf" file the references header appear on the first page, without any references below it (i.e. the rest of the page is blank)

The rest of the article (title etc) appears normally on the consecutive pages of the pdf. All the citations in the text are missing.

Can somebody help me out please? What's wrong?

[Juanjo]

Look if the blg file (after running BibTeX) contains a message like this:

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White space in argument---line 4 of file pru.aux
 : \bibdata{IEEEabrv,
 :                    references}
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command

If this were the case, remove the white space between the comma and "references". If this wasn't the problem, try something simple as:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{IEEEabrv,references}

\end{document}

Then post again a message and attach the log, blg and bib files.