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\documentclass[a4paper,style=index,xindy,x11names]{book}
\usepackage[T1,LGR,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek,russian,main=british]{babel} % Compile w/PDFLaTeX !!!!!
\languageattribute{greek}{ancient}
\usepackage{cjhebrew}

\usepackage[top=3cm,bottom=3cm,left=3cm,right=3cm,columnsep=30pt]{geometry} % Document margins and spacings
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=apa, backend=biber, useprefix=false]{biblatex}
\AtEveryCitekey{\toggletrue{blx@useprefix}}
\setlength\bibitemsep{\baselineskip}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[linktoc=all, colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
    This is a sentence \cite{Festinger1957}.
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

@book{Festinger1957,
  title={A theory of cognitive dissonance},
  author={Festinger, Leon},
  volume={2},
  year={1957},
  publisher={Stanford university press}
}

My references render as the cite key, rather than in an APA fashion, which is what I think I have told LaTeX to do. This excellent guide tells me to look for a .blg file, which I do not have.

The MWE above doesn't show it, but there is a glossary involved, so I compile: pdfLaTex → makeglossaries → biber → pdfLaTex → pdfLaTeX. With the exception of biber, all of these have worked for me before. I'm working with VS Code (1.71.2) and MikTeX (22.8.28).

What am I doing wrong?

Edit LaTeX.tool:

{
            "name": "biber",
            "command": "biber",
            "args": [
                "%DOCFILE%"
            ],
            "env": {}
        }

I also tried without the "env", which also did not work. I do have biber installed and updated according to MiK.

BlueIris
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    Do you mean citations in parentheses (typical for APA referencing)? If so, \cite should be rather replaced with \parencite. – Ironupiwada Oct 03 '22 at 21:25
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    Your example document works fine for me. I'm guessing biber is not being run, or run properly, despite your set up. If it were being run at all, you'd have a .blg file. Double check how you have VS Code set up to run these commands, and remember biber is run on the .bcf file. – frabjous Oct 04 '22 at 03:01

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Adding

% !TeX TXS-program:bibliography = txs:///biber

before \documentclass and all, made the MWE run as expected. The actual document is still refusing, however.

Edit October 22, 2022: I think the whole thing breaks down because of the \input{file.tex} structure that I have going on.

Edit November 28, 2022: this is a work-around rather than a solution, I think, but let's go. Install Docker, open up your project in VS Code (although something else will probably work as well) and run docker run --rm --volume ${PWD}:/tex alexpovel/latex in the terminal.

Then, compile like you'd normally do and ― voilà ― no more bold, in-line cite keys. (Although now I'm running into some glossary-related issues, but that's an issue for later.)

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