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I'm struggling with the following template:

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-nucleic-acids-research-nar-journal/jgwhfndzyykw

My problem is, that in the template, references are added manually. I would like to use a standard .bib file, yet I can't seem to get it right.

It seems overleaf won't let me use biber as backend, and with natbib it returns an error related to chicago.bst file..

Thank you for a working example!

sdgaw erzswer
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The template does not work together with biblatex, in fact it loads a modified (!) version of natbib. So I strongly advise against trying to get biblatex to work and use natbib instead. If you are submitting to that journal it is quite unlikely anyway that they can accept biblatex submissions, see Biblatex: submitting to a journal

The following MWE worked fine for me on Overleaf, see https://www.overleaf.com/read/nvzmmrbkmtvd

\documentclass[a4,center,fleqn]{NAR}

\copyrightyear{2008}
\pubdate{31 July 2009}
\pubyear{2009}
\jvolume{37}
\jissue{12}

\begin{document}
\title{Article title}
\author{Someone}
\address{Location}

\history{None}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
Text.
\end{abstract}

\section{Text}
\cite{wilde,kullback,moore}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}

That is not to say that there is absolutely no way to get biblatex to work with that template (there is), but you should not go down that route. The particular problem is that the class defines a few commands that biblatex needs to define itself and makes the bold move

\mathchardef\@m=1500   % adapted value

which seems like a really bad idea to me, since biblatex (and other packages as well) assumes the standard definition of

\mathchardef\@m=1000

This needs to be fixed so that you end up loading the class with the option openbib to avoid natbib and

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\undef\bibfont
\makeatletter
\mathchardef\@m=1000
\makeatother
\usepackage{biblatex}

to fix its definitions.

moewe
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