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I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXworks. When I compile the beamer document with footnote references it only returns the text that's in the braces for the \footnote command in the footnote and not an actual reference.

Minimal working example.

\documentclass{beamer}

%THEME
\usetheme{default}
\usecolortheme{beaver}

%BIBTEX
\usepackage[style=verbose,autocite=footnote]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{methods,
    author= "A.G. Schwartz and J.H. Lipner and J.D. Pasteris and G.M. Genin and S. Thomopoulos",
    title = "Muscle loading is necessary for the formation of a functional tendon enthesis",
    journal = "Bone",
    year = "2013",
    volume = "55",
    number = "1",
    pages = "44-51",
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

%DOCUMENT
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Recap}

\begin{itemize}
\item This is a recap slide\footcite{methods}
\end{itemize}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

Gives me this:


I even tried to copy and paste the example in this answer and it gives me same type of error: just prints "Taflove2000" in the footnote.

It's got to be something to do with the way I'm compiling it. I've tried it with miktex-pdftex.exe with arguments

$synctexoption
--shell-escape
-undump=pdflatex
$fullname

which is what I usually use. But I've also tried it with texify.exe and arguments

--pdf
--tex-option=$synctexoption
$fullname

What should I be using?

  • did you run biber after pdflatex? The full compilation workshop should be pdflatex -> biber -> pdflatex. – Guido Nov 07 '14 at 02:11
  • @Guido, I do not. How would I do that in TeXworks? I'm still trying to learn this all. – BeaumontTaz Nov 07 '14 at 02:12
  • Alternatively add backend=bibtex to the options of biblatex. – Guido Nov 07 '14 at 02:12
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    Alternatively see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154751/biblatex-with-biber-configuring-my-editor-to-avoid-undefined-citations and also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63852/question-mark-instead-of-citation-number?rq=1 – Guido Nov 07 '14 at 02:14
  • @Guido I followed the instructions in that link and get the following error Entity: line 1959: parser error : expected '>' </bcf:constra ^ Entity: line 1959: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: constraint line 1954 and constra </bcf:constra ^ INFO - This is Biber 1.8 INFO - Logfile is 'pres2.blg' INFO - Reading 'pres2.bcf' and nothing changes if I add the backend=bibtex option. – BeaumontTaz Nov 07 '14 at 02:18
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    Remove all auxiliary files. Then can you try from the command line/terminal? If you include backend=bibtex you have to run pdflatex pres2 then bibtex pres2 and then pdflatex pres2. Without that line the second step is biber pres2. – Guido Nov 07 '14 at 02:22

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