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This seems to me to be weird. I can't find any references to anything similar happening, the nearest I find is when a [?] appears instead of the author when using BibTeX.

Six months ago, I compiled a thesis, it worked fine, the references appeared fine. On a new computer, a new install of TeXmaker (4.4.1). Now, instead of author/year appearing in the text, the title of the article being referenced appears.

I took some of the preamble from the text file to create a minimal working example of the problem. My tex file now consists of:

\documentclass[12pt, english, onehalfspacing, liststotoc, toctotoc, parskip,]{MastersDoctoralThesis}        
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear,natbib=true,bibencoding=ascii,dashed=false]{biblatex}
%\DeclareNameAlias{author}{last-first}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}% http://ctan.org/pkg/appendices
\addbibresource{minimal.bib} % The filename of the bibliography
\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes} 

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
blah blah blah\citep{Nicholson1992}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

My bib file consists of:

Automatically generated by Mendeley Desktop 1.17.10
Any changes to this file will be lost if it is regenerated by Mendeley.
BibTeX export options can be customized via Options -> BibTeX in Mendeley Desktop

@article{Nicholson1992,
author = {Nicholson, R L and Hammerschmidt, R},
doi = {10.1146/annurev.py.30.090192.002101},
issn = {0066-4286},
journal = {Annual Review of Phytopathology},
number = {1},
pages = {369--389},
publisher = {Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, USA},
title = {Phenolic Compounds and Their Role in Disease Resistance},
url = {http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.py.30.090192.002101},
volume = {30},
year = {1992}
}

If I run 

pdflatex minimal.tex 
bibtex minimal
pdflatex minimal.tex 
pdflatex minimal.tex

I get no errors, only a warning:

Package biblatex Warning: File 'minimal.bbl' created by wrong version.

Otherwise, it produces a pdf with the following in the text body:

blah blah blah(“Phenolic Compounds and Their Role in Disease Resistance”)

Where do I start looking for a solution for this?

moewe
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Ben
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    Well the Package biblatex Warning: File 'minimal.bbl' created by wrong version. is crucial. That means that something is out of sync. Try updating your TeX distribution. Then delete all temporary files and try again. BTW: Would it be an option to use Biber? – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 11:37
  • Are you on Windows? Do you use TeX live or MikTeX? – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 11:39
  • I'm using Mint. I've updated repository's and Texlive is at the latest version as best I can tell. – Ben Jul 05 '17 at 11:55
  • Do you use TeX live from the repositories or vanilla? Can you check your biblatex version? – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 11:56
  • When I run bibtex minimal, I get Warning--Version mismatch: biblatex.bst=2.3, biblatex.sty=2.6. The only references to this I've come across involve biber, which I'm not using. I could have another attempt at using biber, but every time I've tried to use it in the past, it's been ... spectacularly frustrating. – Ben Jul 05 '17 at 11:57
  • Also, I've been deleting all aux, blg and bbl files before I run these. Sorry, should have mentioned that. – Ben Jul 05 '17 at 11:59
  • Well, this shows that there is a version mismatch between your biblatex.bst and the rest of biblatex. This really should not happen if the package is installed properly. I had a similar problem on MikTeX once. – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 11:59
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 12:00
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it was caused by an outdated file in the working directory that masked the file of the package installed via the distribution. After deleting the spurious file everything works fine again. – moewe Jul 05 '17 at 12:39

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