On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Marvin Doyley wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I realize that there have been a lot of discussion on this topic;  
> however, it is not clear to me how to resolve this issue. More  
> specifically, org-latex-export does a good job convert org to latex,  
> but for some reason bibtex isn't called.  My current work around is  
> run bibtex in a shell after running org-latex-export.
>
> I there a more elegant way of doing this ?
>
> thanks
> M

Aloha M,

I'm not certain I understand your questions, but perhaps this will help.

There are many things one might do with the .tex file created by the  
Org-mode LaTeX exporter: latex, pdftex, bibtex, makeindex, glossaries,  
etc.  If your output target is pdf, then the variable org-latex-to-pdf- 
process is your friend.  This one holds a list of commands to run  
against the .tex file; one of these commands can be bibtex.

There is some discussion of this here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.php#sec-8

hth,
Tom