[OS X TeX] Unrecognized BibTeX Entries

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On 29 Sep 2006, at 20:15, Josep M. Font wrote:

> El 29/09/2006, a las 19:28, Mark Eli Kalderon escribió:
>
>> Running BibTeX I received the following error:
>>
>> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.5.5)
>> The top-level auxiliary file: Horwich.aux
>> The style file: plainnat.bst
>> I found no \bibdata command---while reading file Horwich.aux
>> Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "Ross:1939nx"
>> Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "Geach:1958kx"
>> (There was 1 error message)
>>
>> However, these entries are in my BibTeX file (located in ~/Library/ 
>> texmf/bibtex/bib). Any ideas about how to diagnose this problem?  
>> Also, what is the \bibdata command? Is this something that is  
>> meant to be automagically generated in running BibTeX?
>
> The \bibdata command is "automagically generated" when runing  
> *LaTeX* on your source Horwich.tex, PROVIDED it contains
>
> \bibliography{<name of your bib file(s), without the .bib extension>}
>
> just in the place where you intend the bibliography to be typeset.
>
> You can list several .bib files, separated by commas.
>
> JMaF
Thanks for the confirmation Joseph. Best, Mark
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