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been writing up my thesis and everything works pretty well except for the citations and the bibliography.

I am using a Tex file that is split up into different parts which I include using the \input {something.tex} command. Everything compiles just fine, except when I try to compile the document again using Bibtex I get the following output:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2013)
The top-level auxiliary file: BA.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: 00-Titel_etc/Titelblatt.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: 00-Titel_etc/eidesstattliche_Erklaerung.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file BA.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file BA.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file BA.aux
(There were 3 error messages)

I call the citations in the subfiles using for example: \cite {Scott.2011} with the corresponding line in the .bib file: @article{Scott.2011, …}

I call the bibliography using the following:

\defbibheading{Literaturverzeichnis}{\section{Literaturverzeichnis}}
\bibliographystyle {plain}
\bibliography {Quellen} 
\nocite {*} 
\printbibliography[heading=Literaturverzeichnis]

And my bibliography file is in the same folder as the overall Tex file (namely BA.tex). But even with the \nocite {*} command all I get on the bibliography page is the output "Quellen" which is the name of my .bib file.

Don't actually know what I am doing wrong… been googling all over the internet, found similar problems, but none of the solutions brought any help or even change. I am using Texshop on a Mac by the way.

Appreciate any kind of help or hint as to what to try or do!!!! Thanks a lot in advance!

Mico
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    You are using biblatex by the look of things: do you have backend=bibtex in the options when loading it? If not, it will default to Biber, which uses a different mechanism to pass data. – Joseph Wright Jun 28 '14 at 16:31
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    Scott.2001 or Scott.2011? – Sigur Jun 28 '14 at 16:32
  • @Sigur 2011 of course… has been edited. thx. – budekatude Jun 28 '14 at 16:46
  • @JosephWright: tex shop provides me with a drop down menu to recompile my file using bibtex. how and where would i have to apply the backend=bibtexoption? – budekatude Jun 28 '14 at 16:48
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    @budekatude Nothing to do with your editor. Somewhere in your preamble you have a line \usepackage{biblatex} or similar, which needs to have the option if you are using BibTeX, e.g. \usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}. – Joseph Wright Jun 28 '14 at 16:50
  • Brilliant! Thank you so much JosephWright! That works perfect! You just made my day! – budekatude Jun 28 '14 at 16:53
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    You are mixing biblatex (\printbibliography) and non-biblatex-code (\bibliographystyle) that's not a good idea. And if you want to use biblatex you should better change your editor so that is uses biber instead of adding backend=bibtex. See e.g. http://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/1909/wie-verwende-ich-biber-in-meinem-editor – Ulrike Fischer Jun 28 '14 at 16:54

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