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Sorry, title is vague as I don't know how to specify. I am trying to use biblatex to produce a bibliography, but the references section is not produced, and all that is produced is a bold version of the reference name.

This is my MWE:

% !TEX TS-program = LuaLaTeX

%Macro Preamble
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fullpage}

\date{
    \today}

\title{\vspace*{-9ex}\scshape %enter title here
My cool title}      
\author{\scshape\small\bfseries %enter name here
Christopher Tatlock}

\usepackage[bibencoding=utf8,style=apa]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}



\begin{document}
\maketitle


Hello, this is a reference \parencite{albert}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

The output for this is

Hello, this is a reference (albert)

This is my bib file:

@article{albert,
  title={Understanding the Life Course through Newspaper Obituaries.},
  author={Albert, Ajani Oludele and Anthony, Adegoke and Lateef, Adisa Ademola},
  journal={Indian Journal of Gerontology},
  volume={30},
  number={4},
  year={2016}
}

It feels like I am missing something blatantly obvious. I appreciate any help.

I am also trying with apacite with similar code, but apacite is generating

Hello, this is a reference (?, ?)

instead, with no references section.

Jake Ireland
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    Did you also compile your document usnig biber? See also Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number – leandriis Jan 16 '20 at 07:54
  • @leandriis I don't think I was doing so, so I added % !BIB TS-program = biber at the beginning of my document. Still no luck. – Jake Ireland Jan 16 '20 at 07:57
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    you need to run separate programs first lualatex then biber then lualatex twice more, first check that it works if you run the commands directly, then if you want to know how to get your editor to run that sequence, you need to say which editor you use. – David Carlisle Jan 16 '20 at 08:06
  • @DavidCarlisle I am using TeXShop. – Jake Ireland Jan 16 '20 at 08:14
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    https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864 explains how you can set up your editor to run Biber. – moewe Jan 16 '20 at 21:36
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    You won't need the biblatex option bibencoding=utf8, with LuaLaTeX. biblatex assumes that the guessed .tex file encoding and the .bib file encoding is the same. You also won't need \usepackage[english]{babel} with LuaLaTeX. – moewe Jan 16 '20 at 21:37
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    @moewe, your link helped. Now compiling with biber and all is working well. Also, thank you for the information about biblatex encoding. – Jake Ireland Jan 16 '20 at 23:50
  • Oh, I only just noticed that I copied the wrong line in my comment above. I meant You also won't need \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} with LuaLaTeX. The line \usepackage[english]{babel} is stills useful no matter if you use pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. Sorry for that. – moewe Jan 17 '20 at 16:10

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