My Daily Hacks

Recently I had an issue using the multibib package with my thesis Latex code. I wanted to separate list of my publications from the  cited publication in the thesis and put it in a separate section. Basically multibib does this just by calling the package and introducing new commands for multiple bibliography entries,

\usepackage{multibib}
\newcites{journal,conf}{{Journal articles},{Peer reviewed conferences}}

and then calling the associated bibliography files.

\nocitejournal{*}
\bibliographystylejournal{plainyr-rev}
\bibliographyjournal{mypublicationsJ}
% 'mypublicationsJ' is the name of the bib file
\nociteconf{*}
\bibliographystyleconf{plainyr-rev}
\bibliographyconf{mypublicationsC}
% 'mypublicationsC' is the name of the bib file

The problem is that TexStudio does not compile the extra introduced bib files and just compiles the main bib file. After some searching I found that there is a workaround which might even work with other latex editors. Create a batch file with below contents and put it in the “bin” folder of the miktex (usually located at “C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin“).

@ECHO off
IF (%1)==() GOTO end
FOR %%f in (%1\*.aux) DO bibtex %%f
@ECHO on
:end

Basically this batch file will look for all auxiliary bibliography files and compile them with BibTex. Then call the batch whenever BibTex is supposed to be called. For TexStudio go to “Options > Configure Texstudio > Commands > BibTex” and give the path to the batch file followed by “?a“.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\multibibrun.bat" ?a

That’s all. You can just compile the bibliography using the shortcut “F11” and then compile the master document.

Update: If you are still having difficulties ensure that the path you have your “.tex” file does not include any spaces.