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

[Edward M. Roche]

I moved the entries around, and re-checked the file for any extra line 
feeds that might have been seen in Latex. It seems that no matter what I 
do, an error comes up.
The most recent is:

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 608 of file process.bib
  :  JOURN
  :       AL = "The Magazine for Chief Financial Officers ",
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "pro:green-zimmerman"
Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "pro:shin-leem"
Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "pro:segev-gebaue
(....this continues for the rest of the bib database)

If I cut and paste this entry to somewhere else, the error still appears.


> 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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