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I have a bibliography (.bib) file:

@article{tong2012string,
author = {D. Tong},
title = {{L}ectures on {S}tring {T}heory},
year = {2012},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {0908.0333},
primaryClass = {hep-th}}

In my LaTeX file, I included:

\usepackage[citestyle=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{references.bib}

In addition, I used, \cite{tong2012string} next to where I'd like the [1] to appear, and finally attempted to print the bibliography using \printbibliography.

What Happened:

Instead of including [1], in the PDF it printed [tong2012string] in bold. Also, the blbiography was not printed at all. I've tried:

  • Making sure I'm using biber by specifying 'backend=biber'
  • Deleting any auxiliary files that may have been causing the problem

However, my .blg file is always the same:

    This is BibTeX, Version 0.99dThe top-level auxiliary file: String.aux
I found no \citation commands---while reading file String.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file String.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file String.aux
(There were 3 error messages)

Windows 7, using TeXStudio and MiKTeX

Working Example

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[citestyle=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\usepackage[margin=0.95in]{geometry}
\begin{document}

\cite{tong2012string}

\newpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}

See above for .bib file.

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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us to help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – Sverre May 27 '14 at 15:16
  • @Sverre: I'm on it, thanks for letting me know :) – JamalS May 27 '14 at 15:19
  • You're running bibtex, not biber. – Torbjørn T. May 27 '14 at 15:22
  • @TorbjørnT.: How do I fix that? I specified "backend=bibtex", is that not enough? – JamalS May 27 '14 at 15:23
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    You have specified backend=biber, which means you have to compile with the sequence pdflatex - biber - pdflatex. If you switch to backend=bibtex then you can run pdflatex - bibtex - pdflatex, or F6 - F11 - F6 in TeXstudio. – Torbjørn T. May 27 '14 at 15:25
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    There is some info on running biber from TeXstudio in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154751/biblatex-with-biber-configuring-my-editor-to-avoid-undefined-citations/154754#154754 – Torbjørn T. May 27 '14 at 15:26
  • @TorbjørnT.: Thank you for the link, it solved the problem! – JamalS May 27 '14 at 16:40
  • @TorbjørnT.: Do you know how I can fix the style? I've got it on numeric, but it prints out: D. Tong. "Lectures on String Theory". In: (2012). arXiv: [arXiv:0908.0333 [hep-th]] How can I get the title to be italicized, and the 'in' removed? – JamalS May 27 '14 at 17:07
  • @user1997744 In general you should open a new question for new questions rather than asking in comments, but those questions are answered elsewhere on this Exchange - I can't find them right now, but a little Google might help! Welcome! :-) – darthbith May 27 '14 at 18:09
  • @darthbith: In case you were curious, my mistake was setting the style using bibstyle, rather than the style command :) – JamalS May 27 '14 at 18:44

1 Answers1

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Make sure you actually run the biber command between runs of latex:

   latex test.tex
   biber test
   latex test.tex
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