compile a latex document use pdflatex ,not give a references (citation) as well as the figure numbers (ref)

Question

I am on the process to submit a paper, and the committee need the paper in a latex form that being able to compile in pdf using one of the following compiler: pdflatex, xelatex,lualatex or latex.

and for references using either : bibtex, biber.

I am using overleaf to generate my paper and manage the references in a form of .bib

while using the above latex generators , i got the pdf without references and figure/table citation. it gives ? instead of the exact numbers

my reference part at the end of my .tex file is as bellow :

\bibliographystyle{splncs04}
%\typeout{}
\bibliography{egbib}

I noticed that when i use the latexmk -pdf function in the command prompt , i got the correct pdf file with reference and citation correctly presents.

the conference need me to submit a zip file with all my document and files, and now i am not sure how to ensure that my file will regenerate correctly there.

any suggestion please ?

Answer 1

To handle errors related to references not found, it is useful to compile pdflatex + bibtex + twice pdflatex again. Alternatively, using latexmk automatically decides how many times to compile based on whether or not the pdf was successfully produced. Question about it