I am facing a rather strange issue when running bibtex using MikTeX 2.9 and TeXMakeR 4.5 under windows 7.
At first I run pdflatex and then bibtex (as configured in TeXMakeR "C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/bin/x64/biber.exe" %). When invoking bibtex I get the following error
INFO - This is Biber 2.7 INFO - Logfile is 'test.blg'ERROR - Cannot find control file 'test.bcf'! - did you pass the "backend=biber" option to BibLaTeX? INFO - ERRORS: 1
Process exited with error(s)
I've searched through various questions in tex.se but I couldn't find a solution that could fix my problem. A MWE can be found below along with a sample bib file.
\documentclass[aps,prc,reprint,superscriptaddress,floatfix,showpacs]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%\usepackage[natbib,hyperref,sorting=none]{biblatex}
%\RequirePackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
%\RequirePackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{First Author}
\email[E-Mail: ]{first.author@university.edu}
\author{Second Author}
\affiliation{Department of \LaTeX, National University}
\date{\today}
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext[1]
\end{abstract}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction} \label{Introduction}
\blindtext[2] \cite{JRCreport,JRCref} \blindtext[3].
\bibliography{Bibliography}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}
Bibliography.bib
@TechReport{JRCreport,
author = {Sirakov I. and Becker Bjorn and Capote R. and Kopecky Stefan and Massimi C. and Pronyaev V. G and Schillebeeckx Peter and Trkov Andrej and Zerovnik Gasper},
title = {Evaluation of neutron induced reaction cross sections on gold},
institution = {{EC-JRC-Geel}},
year = {2013},
url = {http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC78690},
key = {JRC78690},
}
@TechReport{JRCref,
author = {L.R. Greenwood and Alan L. Nichols},
title = {Review of the Requirements to Improve and Extend the IRDF library (International Reactor Dosimetry File (IRDF-2002))},
institution = {IAEA},
year = {2007},
url={https://www-nds.iaea.org/publications/indc/indc-nds-0507/},
key = {INDC(NDS)-0507},
}
The current configuration of TeXMakeR can be seen here
I also tried to add the packages
\usepackage[natbib,hyperref,sorting=none]{biblatex}\RequirePackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}\RequirePackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}\usepackage[style=phys]{biblatex}
one at a time but I got the following errors when running pdflatex, respectively
! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package natbib.! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined.
Any idea on what might wrong and how to solve it?

revtexis not compatible withbiblatex. See Is biblatex compatible with RevTeX? – Alan Munn Oct 24 '17 at 18:43\usepackage[style=phys]{biblatex}, which seems to be a package designed for that, but it didn't work. – Thanos Oct 24 '17 at 18:57revtex4-1. If you must use that class, you cannot usebiblatex+biberyou must usenatbib+bibtex. – Alan Munn Oct 24 '17 at 19:03revtexauthor's guide has some more information. They don't actually mentionnatbibso I'm not sure whether you can use it either. Dotexdoc auguideto see that documentation (on most systems). – Alan Munn Oct 24 '17 at 19:13bibtexpreference tobibtexinstead ofbiber. – Alan Munn Oct 24 '17 at 19:16