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I've been have a really hard time getting the IEEE style for biblatex to work. If someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong that would be great.

I've installed the publishing packages suggest here. I get the error: 

!Package biblatex Error: Style 'IEEEtran` not found

Here is what my .tex file looks like

\usepackage[stye=IEEEtran}{biblatex}
...
\bibliography{reference.bib}

and 

\usepackage{stye=IEEEtran}{biblatex}
\addbibresource{reference.bib}
....
\printbibliography

I have also tried style=ieee, style=ieeetr, etc. Any help would be appreciated. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 if that helps.

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    Are you writing for submission to the IEEE? If you are, I can't recommend using biblatex and the ieee style as this is 'unofficial'. – Joseph Wright Feb 04 '13 at 07:01
  • are you really writing \usepackage{stye=IEEEtran}{biblatex}? the first argument is surely optional, so \usepackage[stye=IEEEtran]{biblatex} (or whatever); however, i would pay attention to joseph's warning – wasteofspace Feb 04 '13 at 09:21
  • The site you are linking to points only to the ieeetran package. This package contains only bibtex support files. For biblatex you will have to install the biblatex-ieee package. After the installation you can use it with \usepackage[style=ieee-alphabetic]{biblatex} or with \usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}. – Ulrike Fischer Feb 04 '13 at 10:29
  • @Joseph I have to use IEEE (computer engineer) for my reports. – GEverding Feb 06 '13 at 01:46
  • @Ulrike should I use biblatex or bibtex? What is the difference? – GEverding Feb 06 '13 at 01:47
  • biblatex + biber + a biblatex style like biblatex-ieee is modern, flexible and powerful. But as Joseph said it is not an official way. If you only need the bibliography to look like IEEE you can try it. If you want to submit your tex-file e.g. to a journal you should ask them first. – Ulrike Fischer Feb 06 '13 at 08:19
  • Thank you for the comments it really helped me out.

    I switched the backend to use biber and manually grabbed the biblatex-ieee styles. An important note is that Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't have biber in its repositories so you have to install it manually. Also you need to use the most recent version of biblatex (2.6 as of writing this). This question really helped me out also in understanding how to set up everything.

     – GEverding Feb 06 '13 at 18:27
  • This question is most definitely NOT too localised. Need to do this! – Matt Taylor Apr 24 '14 at 12:41
  • Use \usepackage[bibstyle=ieee]{biblatex}. It worked for me – tex May 01 '14 at 14:01

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