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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 43

"Something's wrong, perhaps a missing \item" error when using itemize

I'm trying to make list using itemize, and I honestly can't see whats wrong with this. I'm sure I'm just missing something small.

\documentclass{article}
\author{}
\title{Essay research}
\begin{document}
\maketitle{}
\section{Alternative fuel sources}
Thorium based nuclear power stations offer advantages over classic uranium based ones:
\begin{itemize}:
\item Thorium-232 is much more abundant than Uranium-235
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

I get the following error thrown back:

./Essay notes.tex:9: LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. [ \item T]
 ./Essay notes.tex:9: LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. [ \item T]
 ./Essay notes.tex:9: LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. [ \item T]
 ./Essay notes.tex:10: LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. [\end{itemize}]

Upvotes: 4

Views: 30274

Answers (5)

Dr Heinz R Kubli
Dr Heinz R Kubli

Reputation: 1

I had the same error message in RStudio, utilizing the quarto book, when rendering to PDF. The pdf was generated in the wrong file folder and the table of content was missing (toc).

The error occured because I did not have any reference in the entire document.

Upvotes: 0

Steven Yoon
Steven Yoon

Reputation: 19

In my case, I removed all contents in the file 'root.bib' and saved and compiled the LaTex. It worked for me.

Upvotes: -2

Paul Razvan Berg
Paul Razvan Berg

Reputation: 21470

In my case, I was trying to apply [noitemsep] to a list, but I haven't imported the enumitem package.

Upvotes: 7

jhclark
jhclark

Reputation: 2563

In my case, this was in the context of a BibTex BBL file, which, upon inspection was empty.

Apparently, Overleaf reported the .bib file's name as Mendeley.bib and I included \bibliography{Mendeley}, but the file was silently not found.

Solution: I renamed the .bib file to all lower case and updated the \bibliography entry to match and everything worked as expected.

Upvotes: 1

Paweł Mach
Paweł Mach

Reputation: 745

You have got a ":" after \begin{itemize}.

Anything enclosed between \begin{itemize} and \end{itemize} must be after \item.

Upvotes: 5

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