Consider following MWE:
\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{biblatex} % version 3.3 with biber 2.4 (TexLive 2015)
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{example,
author = {AUTHOR A, AUTHOR B},
journal = {NAME OF JOURNAL},
title = {NAME OF PAPER},
year = {2016},
volume = {12},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item \citefield{example}{author}
\item \citefield{example}{journal}
\item \citefield{example}{title}
\item \citefield{example}{year}
\item \citefield{example}{volume}
\end{itemize}
\fullcite{example}
\end{document}
As you can see author and journal are not given. What is the problem or is there a bug in this biblatex version?
