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

[Emilio Faro]

on 9/19/02 3:55 PM, Edward M. Roche wrote:

> 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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I suspect that the error lies somewhere within the field data or entry that
one would find by going back 5000 characters from the error point. Perhaps a
missing "}".

Emilio Faro


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