org-mode and bibtex latex export problem

Question

I followed this and can grab stuff (with Google Scholar) and put it in my ref.org, as described. However when I create a testbibtex.org with this lone line:

\bibliography{ref}

all I get with Latex export is the word "Contents." I've copied the contents of ref.org to ref.bib, entries such as this:

@book{burton2006elementary,
  title={Elementary number theory},
  author={Burton, David M},
  year={2006},
  publisher={Tata McGraw-Hill Education}
}

but nothing of this is included in the Latex export. So, yeah, I really need a beginner's tutorial in this whole process.

Answer 1

I'm doing latex bibliography exports in Org9 with a regular bibtex file (literature.bib). At the location where I want the references to appear in the result, I put

#+BIBLIOGRAPHY: /HOME/uidg1626/literature apalike

into my org file or sub-header (for sub-tree export). Citing is done with org links e.g. [[cite:key_of_bibtex_entry]].

Before the above can work the org pdf compiling process hast to be configured (e.g. in init.el) to include a bibtex run:

(require 'ox-bibtex)
(setq org-latex-pdf-process
      '("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
        "bibtex %b"
        "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"
        "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f"))

I got it from here: http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/anno-bib-template-worg.html#sec-5 which is working for my tex-live system.