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I am fairly new to Latex. I have googled that and saw 300 different responses and not really helped me.

My text was compiling previously with no major issues but now all my bibliography references are appearing like the label in the bib file.

I deleted the aux file due to one of the posts I saw, maybe that's the reason.

This is how it appears: "...specially in coastal zones (guannel16)."

My file header looks like that:

\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=2.54cm,right=2.54cm,top=1.25cm,bottom=1.5cm] 
{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}%codification of the document
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[section]{placeins}

\usepackage[autocite=inline, maxbibnames=20, citestyle=authoryear,                         
bibstyle=authoryear, backend=biber, natbib]{biblatex}
\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addcomma\space}
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Alph{section}}

\addbibresource{referenceRP.bib}

And the output is all citation (...) undefined.

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    You need to run biber: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154751/biblatex-with-biber-configuring-my-editor-to-avoid-undefined-citations – Johannes_B Mar 27 '18 at 04:56
  • If running Biber does not help, we need to see the log file that Biber produces. Please add the contents of the .blg file to your question (Windows classifies .blg files as "Performance Manitor Files", but the .blgs produced by Biber are just plain text files you can open with your favourite editor). – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 05:17
  • I can't find the .blg file, where is it? Running biber didn't help – Nery Neto Mar 27 '18 at 06:39
  • The .blg file should be in the same directory as your main .tex file and your .log file. On Windows you may have to make sure that file extensions are not hidden with. If you have run Biber and you don't get a .blg file, something is going seriously wrong. Can you run Biber from the command line/terminal? What does biber --version give you? Please read https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/286706/35864 carefully. – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 06:51
  • That's the result from my .blg file:
    [0] Config.pm:354> INFO - This is Biber 2.7 [0] Config.pm:357> INFO - Logfile is 'ResearchProposal.blg' [33] biber-MSWIN64:303> INFO - === [63] Biber.pm:359> INFO - Reading 'ResearchProposal.bcf' [144] Utils.pm:180> ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.4, expected version 3.3. This means that your biber (2.7) and biblatex (3.10) versions are incompatible. See compat matrix in biblatex or biber PDF documentation. [145] Biber.pm:113> INFO - ERRORS: 1
    – Nery Neto Mar 27 '18 at 07:21
  • As ERROR - Error: Found biblatex control file version 3.4, expected version 3.3. This means that your biber (2.7) and biblatex (3.10) versions are incompatible. says: Your versions of biblatex and Biber are incompatible. Update your TeX system. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55437/35864 – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 07:24
  • If you use MikTeX you will have to update in both Admin and user mode. To be sure that everything is updated, run the updating steps twice in each mode. If you use TeX live, you'll want to use tlmgr. Please let us know if the update worked for you. – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 08:12
  • Thank you. I tried to update but it didn't work. So I uninstall Miktex and the editor. Now biber version is 2.11 and biblatex version is 3.11. According to the docummentation they are compatible and so should work, but still isn't. bbl file is blank – Nery Neto Mar 27 '18 at 09:33
  • What does the .blg say now? – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 09:34
  • Nothing, it's empty – Nery Neto Mar 27 '18 at 13:42
  • Can you run Biber from the command line? Does biber --version really return 2.11? – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 13:44
  • Yes, it does. And returns 2.11 – Nery Neto Mar 27 '18 at 13:47
  • OK, can you please double check your editor configuration with https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154751/biblatex-with-biber-configuring-my-editor-to-avoid-undefined-citations – moewe Mar 27 '18 at 13:53
  • Yes, sure. I have done this procedure before but it's still not working. That's what .bbl file says: \begingroup \makeatletter @ifundefined{ver@biblatex.sty} {@latex@error {Missing 'biblatex' package} {The bibliography requires the 'biblatex' package.} \aftergroup\endinput} {} \endgroup

    \refsection{0} \datalist[entry]{nyt/global//global/global} \entry{adams16}{article}{} \name{author}{12}{}{% {{uniquename=0,uniquepart=base,hash=4255bba08a471a949bdeb52b24c5aece}{% family={Adams}... and then keeps showing the references

    – Nery Neto Mar 28 '18 at 02:16
  • Yeah, I guess I'm done with that...losing too much time. Can I found an alternative to biber/biblatex? – Nery Neto Mar 28 '18 at 02:26
  • IT's working now! I changed the backend to bibtex8 – Nery Neto Mar 28 '18 at 03:12
  • What you have shown above is the .bbl file and it looks OK so far. We need to see the .blg file produced by Biber. You can try and use BibTeX8, but you will have to live with a reduced set of features. – moewe Mar 28 '18 at 06:07
  • Did you try with Biber or did you decide to stick with BibTeX? – moewe Mar 31 '18 at 09:49
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    It's working with biber now. That link you sent me to update biber wasn't working properly. I had to upload MikTex and then upload biber. Then I got another error message, but it just took me to delete the aux file. Thank you for your help! – Nery Neto Apr 03 '18 at 04:09
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it was about a version conflict with biblatex and Biber that has finally been resolved. – moewe Apr 03 '18 at 10:21

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