Working with springer template and bibliography

Question

I am aware that there are multiple questions with similar content but none seem to work for me so let me try to ask this again.

I am working on a project using the Springer template. I have encountered a problem with bibliography. I open up a freshly downloaded template and the bibliography doesn't work. I get questions marks where the citations should be. I am using TeXStudio. I have changed the F5 functionality to PdfLaTeX - BibTeX - PdfLaTex - PdfLaTex and it still doesnt work.

The template says to open the .bll file and copy the contents into the manuscript itself. When I try to open the .bll file it is empty.

There is also a sn-sample-bib.tex file with the following contents:

\begin{thebibliography}{9}

\bibitem{bib1} I.~Podlubny, Fractional Differential Equations, Academie Press, New York, 1999.

etc

\end{thebibliography}

There is this part of the template:

\bibliography{sn-bibliography}% common bib file
%% if required, the content of .bbl file can be included here once bbl is generated
%%\input sn-article.bbl

%% Default %%
%%\input sn-sample-bib.tex%

The .bib file has 12 entries and none get cited right. If I use: \input sn-sample-bib.tex% only the entries from that file will get cited right. Not all entries from sn-bibliography.bib are in sn-sample-bib.tex.

Did anyone had and solved this problem?

I am using TeXStudio

Answer 1

I am using a MiKTeX distribution on a win 7 x64 system. I can get the list of references using

pdflatex + bibtex8.exe + pdflatex + pdflatex

(while using bibtex.exe fails)

% !TeX TS-program = pdflatex

\documentclass[pdflatex,sn-mathphys]{sn-jnl}

\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}\label{sec1}

The Introduction section, of referenced text \cite{bib1} expands on the background of the work (some overlap with the Abstract is acceptable). The introduction should not include subheadings.

\subsection{Details on reference citations}\label{subsec7}

Standard \LaTeX\ permits only numerical citations. To support both numerical and author-year citations this template uses \verb+natbib+ \LaTeX\ package. For style guidance please refer to the template user manual.

Here is an example for \verb+\cite{...}+: \cite{bib1}. Another example for \verb+\citep{...}+: \citep{bib2}. For author-year citation mode, \verb+\cite{...}+ prints Jones et al. (1990) and \verb+\citep{...}+ prints (Jones et al., 1990).

All cited bib entries are printed at the end of this article: \cite{bib3}, \cite{bib4}, \cite{bib5}, \cite{bib6}, \cite{bib7}, \cite{bib8}, \cite{bib9}, \cite{bib10}, \cite{bib11} and \cite{bib12}.

\bibliography{sn-bibliography}% common bib file

\end{document}