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I am a newbie to Latex and I have to write a paper for school where I have to cite different sources. I tried to read up on how to make a bibliography and came to the conclusion that I should use BibLatex using biber as the backend because it is newer and more flexible.

However when I try to use BibLatex with biber do not get a bibliography when I use \printbibliography and i get 3 errors

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 21.6)
The top-level auxiliary file: diho.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file diho.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file diho.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file diho.aux
(There were 3 error messages)
Process exited with error(s)

This is weird because I do not use bibtex as the backend. I then tried using bibtexas the backend and it worked as anticipated.

This is my code when using biber

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{datetime}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{uni.bib}

\begin{document}
    \title{Efterkrigstid og Albert Camus}
    \author{Rasmus Enevoldsen}
    \maketitle


\section{Introdution}
\parencite{Camus42} 
\blindtext
\parencite{Seeberg62}


\printbibliography




\end{document}

And my .bib file

@articel{Camus42,
author =    "Albert Camus",
title =     "Le Mythe de Sisyphe. (Fransk) [Sisyfos-myten]",
year =      "1942"

}
@incollection{Seeberg62,
    author =    "Seeberg, Peter",
    title =     "Hjulet",
    booktitle = "eftersøgningen og andre noveller",
    isbn =      "9788702234862",
    year =      "1962"
}
WiredMic
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Thanks for providing an MWE. Actually there are no fatal problems with your code. I suspect that the error you are getting is because of compiling with a wrong program. The error isn't because of \printbibliography it is because you are using bibtex, while your backend should be biber. The first line of the log snippet you posted says that "This is BibTeX". So please compile with the correct program. – Niranjan Dec 09 '21 at 13:55
  • The log file shown above is from a BibTeX run and not a Biber run. But you need to compile your document with Biber and not with BibTeX. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864 for help with making your editor run Biber for you. (See e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25701/35864 for a short discussion of BibTeX vs Biber and what they do. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/35864 for a longer discussion of what BibTeX/Biber do.) – moewe Dec 09 '21 at 13:56
  • The minor (and non-fatal) errors you have made are 1) Writing articel instead of article. 2) Using an old syntax i.e. article = "<name>". You might want to adopt the new syntax article={<name>}. – Niranjan Dec 09 '21 at 13:57

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This is your code with some minor enhancements.

  1. Use @article instead of @articel
  2. Use the modern syntax with curly braces.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{uni.bib}
@article{Camus42,
  author = {Albert Camus},
  title  = {Le Mythe de Sisyphe. (Fransk) [Sisyfos-myten]},
  year   = {1942}  
}
@incollection{Seeberg62,
  author    = {Seeberg, Peter},
  title     = {Hjulet},
  booktitle = {eftersøgningen og andre noveller},
  isbn      = {9788702234862},
  year      = {1962}
}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{uni.bib}
\title{Efterkrigstid og Albert Camus}
\author{Rasmus Enevoldsen}

\begin{document}
\maketitle


\section{Introdution}
\parencite{Camus42}


\blindtext


\parencite{Seeberg62}


\printbibliography
\end{document}

Compile this in the following order.

pdflatex filename.tex
biber filename # note that I have avoided .tex extension
pdflatex filename.tex
pdflatex filename.tex
Niranjan
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