LaTeX Error: Environment cslreferences undefined

[robjhyndman]

LaTeX Error: Environment cslreferences undefined

[robjhyndman]

Please provide a minimal reproducible example that gives this error. I use the template regularly and I have not seen it.

[CarolineXGao]

Hi Rob,

Here is my Markdown document specification:

---
title: "Very important anlaysis"
author: 
- familyname: Gao
  othernames: Caroline X.
  address: Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
  qualifications:  PhD
output:
   bookdown::pdf_document2:
     toc: no
     number_sections: false
     pandoc_args:
      - --csl=plos-medicine.csl
      - --template=monashwp.tex
abstract: "To be added" 
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%B %d, %Y')`"                
geometry: margin=1in
fontsize: 11pt
bibliography: references.bib 
---

When any citation is used, there is an error message:

! LaTeX Error: Environment cslreferences undefined.

My R environment:

R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.6
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.4.2 viridisLite_0.3.0 splines_4.0.2 tmvnsim_1.0-2
[5] here_0.1 gtools_3.8.2 Formula_1.2-3 BDgraph_2.63
[9] stats4_4.0.2 latticeExtra_0.6-29 yaml_2.2.1 d3Network_0.5.2.1
[13] pbivnorm_0.6.0 pillar_1.4.6 backports_1.1.10 lattice_0.20-41
[17] glue_1.4.2 digest_0.6.25 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 checkmate_2.0.0
[21] rvest_0.3.6 colorspace_1.4-1 htmltools_0.5.0 Matrix_1.2-18
[25] plyr_1.8.6 psych_2.0.8 pkgconfig_2.0.3 bookdown_0.20
[29] purrr_0.3.4 corpcor_1.6.9 webshot_0.5.2 scales_1.1.1
[33] glasso_1.11 whisker_0.4 jpeg_0.1-8.1 fdrtool_1.2.15
[37] huge_1.3.4.1 htmlTable_2.1.0 tibble_3.0.3 rticles_0.16
[41] generics_0.0.2 ggplot2_3.3.2 ellipsis_0.3.1 pbapply_1.4-3
[45] nnet_7.3-14 mnormt_2.0.2 survival_3.1-12 magrittr_1.5
[49] crayon_1.3.4 evaluate_0.14 nlme_3.1-148 MASS_7.3-51.6
[53] xml2_1.3.2 foreign_0.8-80 tools_4.0.2 data.table_1.13.0
[57] lifecycle_0.2.0 stringr_1.4.0 munsell_0.5.0 cluster_2.1.0
[61] kableExtra_1.2.1 compiler_4.0.2 rlang_0.4.7 grid_4.0.2
[65] rstudioapi_0.11 rjson_0.2.20 htmlwidgets_1.5.1 igraph_1.2.5
[69] lavaan_0.6-7 base64enc_0.1-3 rmarkdown_2.3 gtable_0.3.0
[73] abind_1.4-5 reshape2_1.4.4 qgraph_1.6.5 R6_2.4.1
[77] gridExtra_2.3 knitr_1.30 dplyr_1.0.2 Hmisc_4.4-1
[81] rprojroot_1.3-2 stringi_1.5.3 parallel_4.0.2 Rcpp_1.0.5
[85] vctrs_0.3.4 rpart_4.1-15 png_0.1-7 tidyselect_1.1.0
[89] xfun_0.18

Thanks!!

Caroline

[robjhyndman]

The template uses biblatex for referencing, not csl. You can edit the template to remove the biblatex specs, or you can use a biblatex style for PLOS. There are some suggestions here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52586/143

[CarolineXGao]

Thanks Rob!!

I think when using the template under bookdown, bookdown calls csl. By including the cslreferences specification, somehow it over-writes the biblatex style. I found myself had to use bookdown because I have used figure citation style @ref(fig: figure1), so it works with both word and latex under bookdown. I am still quite new to this, so not sure whether it is the best way to go. But it seems working now.

Thanks for your help, much appreciated : )

Best,

Caroline