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Compile a latex file with a bibliography.
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For some time I have blindly run latex commands until I got a PDF file with the correct references. After reading some source and SF posts, I believe I have figured out the correct way to do it.

latexmk -c main.tex; pdflatex main.tex; bibtex main; pdflatex main.tex;
  1. latexmk -c main.tex cleans the directory.
  2. pdflatex main.tex generates auxillary files and figures out what bib entries it needs.
  3. bibtex main compiles the bibliography.
  4. pdflatex main.tex generates the final PDF.
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