LEd ⇒ Problem with manual Bibliography

[MrPhithesis]

Hey there,
I got a pretty darn problem:
started with Latex yesterday (hope this excuses something) and am simply not able to get {thebibliography} to work properly.

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\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\title{My topic} 
\author{My Name}
\date{...}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\titlepage
\section{Überschrift }
Want to use a reference here.\cite{ab}

\section{Überschrift}
\begin{thebibliography}
\bibitem{ab}This is my reference
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

LeD tells me the following:

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LaTeX Warning: Citation `ab' on page 2 undefined on input line 14.


! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.18 \bibitem
             {ab}This is my reference
? 

All I get in the compiled version: [?]
Am I misunderstanding sth. crucial?
Thank you very much
PS: I am using newest Miktex and Led environment and am german (thats why Iam loading those packages)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

the environment requires an argument for the label width (for the indentation), where you could specify the widest label, such as

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\begin{thebibliography}{ab}
\bibitem{ab}This is my reference
\end{thebibliography}

Stefan

[MrPhithesis]

I tried {99} and it worked!

Thanks