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I have a .bst file which I would like to use to customise my bibliography - I am passing the backend=biber in my preamble and I can currently only choose from the in-built styles. Where should I save this .bst file and how can I load it into my package so I can use it? I am using TeXshop on Mac.

CS1994
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    You can't use a custom .bst file with biblatex: the two approaches are orthogonal. Either you will need to use 'classical' BibTeX or modify style from LaTeX. – Joseph Wright Sep 16 '19 at 19:53
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    You can not use custom .bst styles with biblatex (your question doesn't explicitly mention biblatex except for the tags, but backend=biber is clearly a biblatex option). biblatex's styles work entirely different than .bst files. If you want to use a custom .bst file you will have to drop biblatex and go back to the BibTeX way of creating bibliographies. – moewe Sep 16 '19 at 19:53
  • See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/495083/35864 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/61956/35864 – moewe Sep 16 '19 at 19:54
  • If I were to do as you both sat and go back to 'classical' BibTeX, how would I proceed? – CS1994 Sep 16 '19 at 19:54
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    Basically you'd have to follow https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/5091/35864 in reverse: Remove \usepackage[...]{biblatex}, replace \addbibresource{<yourbibfile>.bib} by \bibliography{<yourbibfile>} and move it to where \printbibliography is in your document, remove \printbibliography. Finally add \bibliographystyle{<your custom .bst file>}. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/432102/35864 – moewe Sep 16 '19 at 19:55
  • I have done as you say - I am now getting the error "missing biblatex package". Is there something I should download? – CS1994 Sep 16 '19 at 20:16
  • Remove all temporary files (.aux, .bbl, .bcf, ...) and try again. Make sure to run BibTeX and not Biber on your file (you may have to follow https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864) in reverse for that. – moewe Sep 17 '19 at 05:11
  • Any news here? Can we close this as a duplicate of https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/432102/35864? – moewe Sep 21 '19 at 05:33

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