AUCTeX doesn't run bibtex even though .emacs file is set up appropriately

Question

I created a simple BibTeX file as well as a simple LaTeX file that references said BibTeX file. However, when I printed out the LaTex file in pdf format by running C-c C-a (which, according to the AUCTeX manual, runs BibTeX, amongst other things),the bibliography section didn't appear and the citations were broken.

Trying to debug the problem, I replaced the single C-c C-a command by a sequence of C-c C-c commands (since, according to the AUCTeX manual section linked to above, C-c C-a is an abbreviation for such a sequence), and noticed that the bibtex command was not executed.

A similar question was posted in the past, to which the solution was to add a couple lines to the initialization file, but these lines are already in my initialization file.

Bibliography.bib

@book{WEN08,
    Author = {Jochen Wengenroth},
    Date-Added = {2017-05-08 08:16:51 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2017-05-08 08:19:24 +0000},
    Publisher = {de Gruyter},
    Title = {Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie},
    Year = {2008}}

MyDoc.tex

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{cite}

\begin{document}

\title{My Article}
\author{Nobody Jr.}
\date{Today}
\maketitle

Blablabla said Nobody ~\cite{WEN08}. 

\bibliography{Bibliography}{}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}

.emacs includes the following lines:

(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-self t)

Resulting pdf file

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AUCTeX 11.90.0
Emacs 25.1.1
TeX Live 2016, v. 3.14159265
macOS Sierra, v. 10.12.4

Answer 1

For some reason, the file wasn't actually parsed, so AUCTeX didn't know about the bibliography file. This shouldn't usually happen if you set TeX-parse-self and TeX-auto-save to t, but you can easily trigger parsing with C-c C-n (TeX-normal-mode).