bibtex, latex undefined references, no file *.bbl

[RCR]

I am learning LaTeX and BibTeX and everything has been going well up to

the point of trying to actually get my cites to appear and the bib to
populate.

When I run pdflatex (2-3 times), it runs and exits normally. then I run

bibtex. then I run pdflatex a couple more times. (I'm doing all this on

TeXmaker on WinXP).

The cite shows up as [?] and the bib never gets created. The errors
are:

""
LaTeX Warning: Citation `partridge:1992' on page 1 undefined on input
line 4.
No file fullbib.bbl.
[1
{psfonts.map}] (fullbib.aux)
LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references. ""

I have made a simple .tex and .bib command to repeat the error I am
getting. They are posted here:

fullbib.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{confused}
Why doesn't this work?\cite{partridge:1992}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{smallbib}
\end{document}

smallbib.bib:

%% This BibTeX bibliography file was created using BibDesk.
%% http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
%% Saved with string encoding Western (ASCII)

@book{partridge:1992,
Address = {Boston},
Author = {Partridge, P.W. and Wrobel, L.C. and Brebbia, C.A.},
Date-Added = {2007-01-13 10:56:42 -0500},
Date-Modified = {2007-01-13 11:00:10 -0500},
Publisher = {Computational Mechanics Publications},
Title = {The Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method},
Year = {1992}}

@book{cartwright:2001,
Address = {Boston},
Author = {Cartwright, David J.},
Date-Added = {2007-01-13 10:53:54 -0500},
Date-Modified = {2007-01-13 10:55:37 -0500},
Publisher = {WIT Press},
Title = {Underlying Principles of the Boundary Element Method},

Year = {2001}}

The whole process seems simple enough. Can't figure out why it won't
work for me

Thanks for any help.
RCR

[Manu Krishnan]

any errors occure, while you run your bibtex????

[Manu Krishnan]

I reproduce your code in my file and run.
But it smoothly run. No error can occur

this is my way

pdflatex fullbib.tex
pdflatex fullbib.tex

then

bibtex fullbib

then

pdflatex fullbib.tex
pdflatex fullbib.tex

[El Angelo]

Hi!
I had the same problem with TexMaker, you know (although i don't think
it's texmaker's problem, it's just a shell). What can help is to delete
the .bbl file (bibtex log) from your project directory. then run bibtex
and take a look at the .bbl file - do you see bibliography entries? If
not:
my problem was that bibtex couldn't find the .bib file, when it's in
the same directory as the main .tex file, it works. I didn't try to
move the .bib file somewhere else since then maybe later (it works now,
i want it to continue working :) ) So your smallbib.bib file must be in
the same directory as main .tex file

so: delete the .bbl file and try to run BibTex compilation, then look
what you get. if you still get this problem, reply, we'll see.

[El Angelo]

one more thing I recalled. It started working smoothly when I
reinstalled MikTeX to C:\MikteX. Probably it didn't work just because
MikTeX didn't like himself sitting in C:\Program Files\ as it contains
spaces. Many users say it's better for MikTeX to be in C:\MikTeX

[RCR]

I still haven't had any luck with bibtexing in TeXmaker. Both my .tex
file and .bib files are in the same folder. There is never any
indication that the bib compile doesn't happen, until I check my folder
and find no .blb, .blg file and that the .pdf file of my .tex file has
no sources listed and the cites are all [?]. I have given up for now
and I'm using LaTeXiT on my mac and MikTeX on my PC.

Thanks everyone. I will try and post a comment to the TeXmaker
creators, letting them know of my problem.

RCR

[RCR]

SOLVED!

> > >
> > > I found this:
> > >
> > >http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/faq.html
> > >
> > >There, they say that to get BibTeX to work under MiKTeX, you
> > >have to change the default command from "bibtex %.aux"
> > >to "bibtex %".
> >

This is what I did and it worked. Got this bit of info from another
forum and the TeXmaker creator.

THanks all

RCR