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I had a working file with a natbib setup, but I encoutered difficulties citing in a footnote and it seemed more broadly that biblatex was better for my field. So I switched, and now my .tex file just can't seem to find my .bib file. I have also floated back and forth between certain Biber and Bibtex settings. After four hours of googling I am waving my white flag and crawling desperately for your help.

Here is my preamble:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibston.bib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{textcomp}

As for my errors, it tells me that all of my citations are undefined, and at the end it says:

Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex) "International RBC"
(biblatex) and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
Package logreq Info: Writing requests to '"International RBC".run.xml'.
\openout1 = `"International RBC.run.xml"'

Thank you so much for your help.

George

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  • Check in the blg-file if you did run biber and if there were errors. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 20 '15 at 23:03
  • Welcome to TeX SX! Could you post a minimal, but complete example showing the problem? Just in case: did you follow the full cycle of compilations? – Bernard Dec 20 '15 at 23:04
  • Ulrike Fischer: I do not see a blg file with the rest of them.

    Bernard: In TexMaker, I do PDFLatex, Biblatex, and then a last one/two PDFLatex's. Is this correct?

     – goverton2 Dec 20 '15 at 23:07
  • To follow up on this: if I use natbib (changing my preamble and putting \bibliography{bib}{} \bibliographystyle{plainnat} at the end), everything works fine. But as soon as I change it to Bibtex, even if i delete my .aux files, everything becomes undefined. I dont know if I have ever been so frustrated. – goverton2 Dec 20 '15 at 23:40
  • There are 2 ways of building bibliographies. However from your question and comments I am not sure which ones you are trying to use. With biblatex, I think the default is biber (although you can use bibex if you specify it. with natbib, you have to use bibtex. So in your case, the workflow to compile your document should be pdflatex > biber >pdflatex > pdflatex. biber if the program that will compile your bibliography. Is this what you are doing? – ArTourter Dec 21 '15 at 01:06
  • @ArTourter firstly, thanks for your reply! Really appreciated. I was using natbib until I hit a problem citing in a footnote, and my readings suggested that biblatex was more versatile for my field (economics). So I tried out some suggestions. In fact, in my TexMaker, even if I do Options>Configure TexMaker and change the field to biber, I do not even see a compiler option for biber. That problem explains a lot! What you mentioned is my usual compilation combination, except with bibtex. How do I get a biber compiler? Thanks again for your help! – goverton2 Dec 21 '15 at 11:02
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    Please have a look at What to do to switch to biblatex? for advice on a switch from natbib to biblatex, Question mark instead of citation number for general information on running BibTeX and Biber. Finally, read Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations on how to make your editor run Biber. – moewe Dec 21 '15 at 11:11
  • If nothing seems to work, try compiling your document from the command line. That is navigate to the correct folder in the terminal/command line and issue the commands pdflatex test, biber test, pdflatex test, pdflatex test in that order, assuming your file is called test.tex. If you get any warnings or errors make note of those from the last pdfLaTeX run and the Biber run. You should also refer to the .blg and .log files after all those runs. – moewe Dec 21 '15 at 11:16
  • Any news here? I'm quite tempted to vote to close as a duplicate of Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations, the standard answer for problems that involve not being able to run Biber because of configuration issues in the edtior. – moewe Dec 31 '15 at 06:50
  • Embarassing as it is, I think it was due to a poor compilation cycle. Works fine now with biblatex. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful. – goverton2 Jan 03 '16 at 02:42

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