Re: Citation bug with basic and nb style: no matching number on bibliographic entry

[William Denton]

Ignore this.  To make the numbering appear in the bibliography, use this:

#+cite_export: basic numeric

I'm working my way through all the combinations and will submit some patches for 
the documentation when I have it figured out more.

Bill


On 27 November 2023, William Denton wrote:

> I'm trying citations with the basic processor, and have found what seems to 
> be a problem with the "nb" (numeric) style: the citation has a number, but 
> it's not matched to anything in the bibliography.
>
> Try this as Basic.bib:
>
> @book{chassellIntro,
>  title = {An Introduction to Programming in {{Emacs Lisp}}},
>  author = {Chassell, Robert},
>  date = {2023},
>  publisher = {{GNU Press}},
>  location = {Boston},
>  isbn = {1-882114-43-4},
>  url = {https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html},
>  keywords = {emacs}
> }
>
> And this as basic.org:
>
> # ----------
>
> #+bibliography: Basic.bib
>
> #+cite_export: basic
>
> Emacs comes with a guide to learning Emacs Lisp [cite/nb:@chassellIntro].
>
> * Bibliography
>
> #+print_bibliography:
>
> # ----------
>
> Exporting to PDF, the citation becomes (1), but there's no matching number in 
> the bibliography, so the citation and the source are not connected.  You 
> can't connect (1) to Chassell, Robert.  (Using two sources doesn't make 
> numbers suddenly appear.)
>
> Using the CSL processor and the IEEE style (the sort of style on which I 
> assume the basic nb style is based) the citation is [1] and the book is 
> listed as [1] in the bibliography.
>
>
> Bill
>
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William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada
CO₂: 421.47 ppm (Mauna Loa Observatory, 2023-11-24)