numeric citation with biblatex

Question

My problem is the following: I would like to have a numeric citation style; similar to the one in common papers, so in such a way that the citation is printed in form of a number as [1]. I use \usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, sortcites, sorting=nty, backref, natbib, hyperref]{biblatex} and \cite{} for citations, but still I get an Author-year-style citation... What could be wrong there?

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report} 
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric,sortcites,sorting=nty,backref,natbib,hyperref]{biblatex}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}


\begin{document}
This theory fails to describe the phenomenon of superconductivity.\cite{PhysRev.108.1175}

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}
\printbibliography[title=References]
\end{document}

As far as the information you gave us goes, the behavior is unexpected, so there's probably something else you are not telling us. Could you provide a minimal working example (MWE)/(MWEB) that reproduces the issue? — gusbrs, May 22 '18 at 18:38
Please follow the link provided above. A MWE should be a short but complete piece of code that illustrates the problem, beginning with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. You can edit your question to include it. — gusbrs, May 22 '18 at 18:50
For example: ´This theory fails to describe the phenomenon of superconductivity.\autocite{PhysRev.108.1175}´ which gives "This theory fails to describe the phenomenon of superconductivity.[PhysRev.108.1175]". What I would like to get is "This theory fails to describe the phenomenon of superconductivity. [1]" where the number (in this case 1) should be the number of the (sorted) bibliography-entry... — quertzy37, May 22 '18 at 18:51
As described elsewhere, this could be a result of not deleting intermediate files during compilation, if you switched from an author-year style. You may want to double-check that you are actually compiling from scratch. — Coby Viner, May 22 '18 at 18:54
You still did not provide a MWE... But I assume Question mark instead of citation number and Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations might help you. — gusbrs, May 22 '18 at 18:54
Thanks for providing a MWE. It still needs the bib file and associated \addbibresource call, however, to be complete. — Coby Viner, May 22 '18 at 18:59

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '18 at 19:03

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Assuming that the bib file contains the available BibTeX, the MWE you provided does indeed result in a numeric citation ("[1]").

Please compare your own code with this example (rendered on Overleaf).

You may also want to ensure that you have removed any intermediate files and are compiling from scratch.

answered May 22 '18 at 19:03

Coby Viner

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Now it worked, thanks! I had to remove the intermediate files! – quertzy37 May 22 '18 at 20:46

numeric citation with biblatex

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