Per-chapter bibliographies in biblatex

Question

I'm really new in using biblatex, compile the sample placed in Multiple bibliographies and one global bibliography - all with global labels, but what I get is

  1.1 Foo

  Some text [B02x ].

  1.2 Bar

  Some text [B02y ].

Do not get the bibliography by chapters, or the global references.

Really not remains to be done

 \documentclass{report}
 \usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{references.bib}
 \begin{document}
 \chapter{First chapter}
 \section{Foo}
 Some text \cite{childs_temperature}.
 \printbibliography
 \chapter{Second chapter}
 \section{Bar}
 Some text \cite{hashemian}.
 \printbibliography
 \newpage
 \printbibliography
 \end{document}

And the references.bib

  @BOOK{childs_temperature,
  title = {Practical Temperature Measurement},
  publisher = {Butterworth - Heinemann},
  year = {2001},
  author = {Childs, Peter R N},
  address = {Great Britain},
  edition = {1},
  isbn = {0 7506 5080 X}
  }

  @PHDTHESIS{hashemian,
  author = {Hashemian, Hashem Mehrdad},
  title = {Measurements of dynamic temperatures and pressures in nuclear power plants},
  school = {{The University of Western Ontario}},
  year = {2011},
  type = {PhD {T}hesis}
  }

I need to obtain references by chapter and global cited references, but i don't know how compile.

Answer 1

It sounds like you want the refsection environment, detailed in Section 3.11.3 of biblatex

\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@BOOK{childs_temperature,
  title = {Practical Temperature Measurement},
  publisher = {Butterworth - Heinemann},
  year = {2001},
  author = {Childs, Peter R N},
  address = {Great Britain},
  edition = {1},
  isbn = {0 7506 5080 X}
  }

  @PHDTHESIS{hashemian,
  author = {Hashemian, Hashem Mehrdad},
  title = {Measurements of dynamic temperatures and pressures in nuclear power plants},
  school = {{The University of Western Ontario}},
  year = {2011},
  type = {PhD {T}hesis}
  }
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass{report}
 \usepackage[style=alphabetic]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{references.bib}

 \begin{document}
 \begin{refsection}
 \chapter{First chapter}
 \section{Foo}
 Some text \cite{childs_temperature}.
 \printbibliography
 \end{refsection}

 \begin{refsection}
 \chapter{Second chapter}
 \section{Bar}
 Some text \cite{hashemian}.
 \printbibliography[heading=subbibliography]
 \end{refsection}

 \nocite{*}
 \printbibliography
 \end{document}

Just to clarify, the compilation sequence is

pdflatex myfile.tex
biber myfile.bcf
pdflatex myfile.tex
pdflatex myfile.tex

You don't have to use the file extensions if you'd prefer not to :)

If you'd prefer to use bibtex then use

\usepackage[style=alphabetic,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

and then run

pdflatex myfile.tex
bibtex myfile1-blx.aux
bibtex myfile2-blx.aux
bibtex myfile.aux
pdflatex myfile.tex
pdflatex myfile.tex

without the extensions if you wish.

Answer 2

I'm not sure how this affects what YuppieNetworking said, but to extend upon cmhughes's answer above, refsection prevents using \ref (or \cref) to reference tables or sections in different chapters (or refsections).

To fix this issue, we can use refsegment and then use \printbibliography[segment=\therefsegment] (inspired by referencing to citation in a refsection).

Edit: Please ignore this comment – I can't seem to replicate this issue in a small example or in my own working documents.

Edit 2: this has come up again in my working documents, but that's more likely an error of my template rather than a generic error. I'm back to using the ref segment method.

There's additionally another reason to prefer this method over \refsection, but it's probably only relevant to people like me – I use a single .bib file, exported by my reference manager (Mendeley), for my local LaTeX work. In my overall bibliography, if I use \nocite{*}, that includes every citation I have. If there's a better way to handle this situation, please let me know! I'm sure it's a small issue.