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When running pdfLatex -using biber- in TexMaker, terminal returns empty bibliography. Today someone helps me to solve it with beamer, but now somethings seems wrong with the report document. Just for completeness, the way I am doing the compilation is BibTex-->pdfLatex-->BibTex-->pdfLatex. Below there is a MWE and after it an image of Texmaker configuration. Also when running bibtex terminal returns

    INFO - This is Biber 2.7 INFO - Logfile is 'prueba.blg' INFO - Reading 
'prueba.bcf' INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0 WARN - The file 
'prueba.bcf' does not contain any citations! INFO - Writing 'prueba.bbl' 
with encoding 'UTF-8' INFO - Output to prueba.bbl INFO - WARNINGS: 1

for some reason .bcf file is not being produced also.

I have seen other posts but am not sure that this is the same problem. Any help will be welcome.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[headheight=18pt,a4paper, width=150mm, top=25mm, bottom=25mm, bindingoffset=6mm, headsep=18pt]{geometry}  
\usepackage[spanish,es-noquoting]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\usepackage{csquotes} %"para citar bien"
%\usepackage[numbers, super]{natbib} %problems if uncomment
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{hall2012glioxal,
  Title                    = {Activation of benznidazole by trypanosomal type I nitroreductases results in glyoxal formation},
  Author                   = {Hall, Belinda S and Wilkinson, Shane R},
  Year                     = {2012},
  Number                   = {1},
  Pages                    = {115--123},
  Volume                   = {56},

  Journal                  = {Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy},
  Publisher                = {Am Soc Microbiol}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[style=verbose,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
%\addbibresource{bibtex.bib}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Your configuration seems fine, biber was called. But you have no \cite command in your document. — Ulrike Fischer, Oct 10 '17 at 21:26
Yes I know, but there is \printbibliography, doesn't that mean to print it at the end of the document? @UlrikeFischer — , Oct 10 '17 at 21:27
@UlrikeFischer you are right. Short extra question: Is it possible to use something like \usepackage[numbers, super]{natbib} as I had on bibtex? — , Oct 10 '17 at 21:29
You get such things with biblatex styles (numeric) and the cite style (see supercite in the docu). — Ulrike Fischer, Oct 10 '17 at 21:31
The line Bib(la)tex in the configuration image means that that program is called you wrote here down. The usual way to compile is pdflatex -- bibtex -- pdflatex -- pdflatex. In your case the compiling chain is: pdflatex -- biber -- pdflatex -- pdflatex. To be clear which tool for the bibliography is used wrote the name of the used engine. Then you omit missunderstandings — Mensch, Oct 10 '17 at 21:42

Mensch · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-10T21:52:03.420

Please see the following MWE. You missed to cite at last one or more bib entrys in your code. After adding

Add \nocite{*} to call all bib entrys or cite at last one like~\cite{hall2012glioxal}!
%   ^^^^^^^^^^                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

you get the following compiling MWE:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{hall2012glioxal,
  Title                    = {Activation of benznidazole by trypanosomal type I nitroreductases results in glyoxal formation},
  Author                   = {Hall, Belinda S and Wilkinson, Shane R},
  Year                     = {2012},
  Number                   = {1},
  Pages                    = {115--123},
  Volume                   = {56},

  Journal                  = {Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy},
  Publisher                = {Am Soc Microbiol}
}
\end{filecontents}


\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[headheight=18pt,a4paper, width=150mm, top=25mm, bottom=25mm, bindingoffset=6mm, headsep=18pt]{geometry}  
\usepackage[spanish,es-noquoting]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 
\usepackage{csquotes} %"para citar bien"
%\usepackage[numbers, super]{natbib} %problems if uncomment

\usepackage[style=verbose,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}

Add \nocite{*} to call all bib entrys or cite at last one like~\cite{hall2012glioxal}!
\printbibliography

\end{document}

With option backend=biber for biblatex you need biber to build the bibliography ...

The resulting bibliography is then:

If you want to use natbib with biblatex, just use option natbib for biblatex like:

\usepackage[%
  style=verbose,
  backend=biber,
  natbib
]{biblatex}

To use the numeric style change the call of biblatex to:

\usepackage[%
% style=verbose,
  style=numeric,
  backend=biber,
  natbib=true
]{biblatex}

with the result:

To use the superscript I have to look into the documentation, I never used superscript here ...

Is it possible to remove the citation of the document if they are on biber.bib file? When tried that it doesn't find the refereces — , Oct 10 '17 at 21:55
@HernanMiraola Just comment out \cite{hall2012glioxal} in my MWE and compile three times. I guess the usage of \nocite{*} is what you are searching for ... — Mensch, Oct 10 '17 at 22:03
No, i mean to avoid having all citations inside the main file..; I have almost 50. I have learned how to do that with bibtex but no idea with biber — , Oct 10 '17 at 22:04
@HernanMiraola \nocite{*} called in your document does the following: All * bib entrys not cited are used to build the bibliography without leaving a citing in the document! If you only want several bib entrys you can use the command \nocite{key} for each key you want to be in the bibliography. — Mensch, Oct 10 '17 at 22:10

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