Compiling LaTeX document with BibTeX references to PDF

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When compiling a LaTeX document using BibTeX for handling literature reference sources, one must issue the following 4 commands in order to produce a .pdf file:

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pdflatex mydocument
bibtex mydocument
pdflatex mydocument
pdflatex mydocument

Important is that you omit the file ending ".tex" for "mydocument.tex", as this would confuse bibtex and result in the following error message:

I couldn't open file name `mydocument.tex.aux'

Thanks to the following sites for explaining how to compile LaTeX with BibTeX:
BibTeX and bibliography styles
Pdflatex and bibtex