[OS X TeX] BibTeX error - can anyone see what is wrong?

[Emilio Faro]

on 9/19/02 2:49 PM, Edward M. Roche wrote:

> I'm getting this error:
> 
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.3.7)
> The top-level auxiliary file: V4.aux
> The style file: plain.bst
> Database file #1: process.bib
> Your field is more than 5000 characters---line 664 of file process.bib
> :  TITLE = "Contracting Out Go
> :                             vernment Services--Best Practice
> Guidelines and Case Studies" ,
> I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
> Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "pro:green-zimmerman"
> .... (it continues for the remainder of all the rest of the entries
> with the same Warning)...
> 
> The entry in the bib file is:
> 
> @TECHREPORT{pro:OECD-priv ,
> AUTHOR = "Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development" ,
> TITLE = "Contracting Out Government Services--Best Practice Guidelines
> and Case Studies" ,
> INSTITUTION = "OECD" ,
> YEAR = "1998" ,
> TYPE = "Public Management Occasional Papers" ,
> NUMBER = "20" ,
> ADDRESS = "Paris"
> }
> 
> I can't understand what is wrong.
> 
> 
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There is nothing wrong with that entry as I received it, but it may contain
a strange character in your bib file and this may cause BibTeX to not find
the end of the entry, and therefore not any of the following entries. I
would suggest that you erase that entry from the "process.bib" file and
paste it in again from a reliable source.

Emilio Faro


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