Misc entry not appearing in bibliography

Question

I'm trying to add a misc entry to my bibliography, and despite biblatex recognizing the citation and citing it in-line, it refuses to put it into the works cited section:

(essay.tex)

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla-new,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{essay.bib}

\begin{document}

Test \autocite{misc}.

\newpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}

(essay.bib)

@misc {misc,
    author = "Test author",
    title = "Test citation",
    publisher = "Publisher",
    year = "2005"}

The citation will show inline properly (Test (author)), but the entry doesn't appear in the bibliography. No errors or warnings are encountered when building with latex+biber+latex+latex.

I do not have the specified style. Without the style, I get the bibliography as expected (biblatex v3.3, biber 2.4). — Heiko Oberdiek, Jun 29 '17 at 22:08
See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2050/35864, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/160158/35864, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/85698/35864, https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/369696/35864 — moewe, Jun 30 '17 at 09:11
This could probably seen as duplicate of BibLaTex shows only book references — moewe, Jun 30 '17 at 09:13
Looks like a duplicate to me—had I seen the other questions in my searching, I wouldn't have had to ask! — demize, Jun 30 '17 at 21:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '17 at 22:37

The biblatex-mla doesn't (yet) support a misc entry type (the following is quoted from mla-new.bbx):

% drivers to add eventually: % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{misc} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{artwork} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{audio} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{image} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{movie} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{music} % * \DeclareBibliographyDriver{performance}

Furthermore, it somewhat oddly sets aliases for these type to customa but doesn't provide a bibliography driver for the customa entry type, so nothing gets printed.

As a partial solution, you can reassign the alias to some existing entry type for which there is a driver. In this example, I've set it to be formatted like an article.

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{misc,
    author = "Author, Test",
    title = "Test Title",
    publisher = "Publisher",
    year = "2005"}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\DeclareBibliographyAlias{misc}{article}

\begin{document}

Test \autocite{misc}.


\printbibliography
\end{document}

Misc entry not appearing in bibliography

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