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I am a complete novice latex and I am currently learning how to create the bibliography. The tutorial I am looking at is https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/biblatex/

It tells me to use the bibtex but I cannot find a site in google where I can download the program. Could anyone recommend a website I can download the bibtex?

Keith
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    If you installed LaTeX already biblatex is either already installed on your system, or it can be installed using your TeX distribution. If you have installed TeX live, you can use tlmgr install biblatex, tlmgr install Biber. If you use MikTeX, go to the 'MikTeX Package Manager' or 'MikTeX Package Manager (Admin)' and install (using only one of the two) the package biblatex and the package you can find if you search for biber. – moewe Jan 29 '18 at 10:58
  • You just changed some instances of biblatex in your question to BibTeX? Do you want to use biblatex or BibTeX. See bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib, biblatex in a nutshell (for beginners) – moewe Jan 29 '18 at 10:59
  • If you are a complete novice, note that biblatex is a system for LaTeX (for the most part) to make bibliographies it is not a replacement for a proper LaTeX installation. It is basically a LaTeX package and a support programme. – daleif Jan 29 '18 at 10:59
  • I can't even distinguish between biblatex and bibtex... I have installed texlive so it has biber in it. I will find the difference between biblatex, bibtex and biber... – Keith Jan 29 '18 at 11:02
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    You'll definitely want to read https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/25701/35864 – moewe Jan 29 '18 at 11:04
  • I found out that my tex live contains biber in it, so I clicked the biber icon but it doesn't work... the screen keeps disappearing immediately. What is wrong? – Keith Jan 29 '18 at 11:10
  • Biber like BibTeX (and indeed pdfLaTeX and friends) is a command line tool. You need to start it from the command line. Often your editor can do that for you. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864. Maybe you should read a good introduction to TeX/LaTeX in general and then https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13509/35864 (and indeed the tutorials linked there) for biblatex specifically. – moewe Jan 29 '18 at 11:36
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    Any news here? Did you get anywhere? – moewe Feb 06 '18 at 11:37
  • I finally managed to find a way to make citations. Thank you for your helps. – Keith Feb 06 '18 at 15:09

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