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I am writing my thesis and really struggle with setting up bibliography. I read tons of similar issues here, but nothing seems to work for me. I created bib file wth texlive and I am working with texmkaker. In preamble I have 

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,autocite=inline]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

and 

\printbibliography

under the chapters.

and an example of my bib reference 

@article{tugrul2004effect,
  title={The effect of weathering on pore geometry and compressive strength of selected rock types from Turkey},
  author={Tuǧrul, Atiye},
  journal={Engineering Geology},
  volume={75},
  number={3-4},
  pages={215--227},
  year={2004},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

all the citations are undefined.

Does anyone know what I can do to get my citations right in the text and my reference list to actually appear in the text?

moewe
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Alex
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    You need to run Biber on your document for the citations and bibliography to appear. A complete compilation cycle will involve running LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX (where "LaTeX" is your favourite flavour of LaTeX: it can be pdfLaTEX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX). Why Biber needs to be run is explained brilliantly in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/35864. https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864 contains instructions to set up your editor to run Biber for you. – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 14:05
  • I tried to run pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex and all the other combinations that were mentioned. nothing helped – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 14:10
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    You need to run Biber and not BibTeX. You may have to configure your editor for Biber before you can do that, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864. – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 14:14
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    bibtex is not biber – Ulrike Fischer Apr 12 '20 at 14:14
  • Crosspost https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=112588#p112577 – Johannes_B Apr 12 '20 at 14:17
  • I would love to know where you lost track to make the page better digestible for everyone else. – Johannes_B Apr 12 '20 at 14:19
  • I don't have configure texmaker option so I am not sure how to run biber. – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 14:38
  • have tried the other ways to run biber in the link but I end up with still no references – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 14:39
  • Do you use TeXmaker? What can you see under "Options"? Is the "Configure Texmaker" option maybe present in one of the other menu items (maybe File or Edit)? – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 14:49
  • I have a mac so it was harder to find. But I did and I ran Pdflatex, Bibtex(Biber), pdflatex, pdflatex. Still nothing have changed – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 15:02
  • Ah yes, for some reason the config menu item is often somewhere else on a Mac (not sure why, probably "historical reasons"). If you did indeed run Biber you should be able to find a .blg file (it's a normal text file): Open it and upload its complete contents to the question. – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 15:05
  • I get an error though when I run biber INFO - This is Biber 2.11 INFO - Logfile is 'Maintex.aux.blg'

    ERROR - Cannot find control file 'Maintex.aux.bcf'! - Did latex run successfully on your .tex file before you ran biber? INFO - ERRORS: 1

     – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 15:09
  • You seem to have slightly misconfigured your editor. You need to make sure it runs Biber on the basename of your file; not on the .aux: You probably have set your Biber call to something like biber %.aux, but you need biber % without the .aux. – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 15:10
  • oh my god FINALLY it s there. I have been struggling with it for 3 days now, THANK YOU for patience and help! – Alex Apr 12 '20 at 15:19
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    Glad to hear it works. Since your question was essentially resolved by configuring Texmaker properly would you be OK with closing it as a duplicate of https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/154751/35864? – moewe Apr 12 '20 at 15:26
  • Hey again. The bibliography is not showing again. I run the same combination of pdf and bibtex and references are not appearing. Does anyone know why is that and how to solve it? – Alex Apr 13 '20 at 08:45
  • As established you need to run Biber and not BibTeX. If you did run LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX and still don't get any useful output you need to have a look at the .log and .blg files: They will contain hints as to what is going wrong. In particular the .blg is important. – moewe Apr 13 '20 at 11:02
  • I meant I run biber, i haven't changed anything from yesterday so don't really know why would it suddenly not work anymore. – Alex Apr 13 '20 at 11:20
  • Neither do I, that's why you need to check the .log and .blg files: Before you do that remove the temporary files (.aux, .bbl, .bcf) and recompile with the full LaTeX, Biber, LaTeX, LaTeX cycle. If there are any errors, fix them; if you can't fix them, tell us what the error messages say. – moewe Apr 13 '20 at 11:38
  • One reference had a foreign symbol so it couldn't be read apparently. thanks again for help :) – Alex Apr 13 '20 at 15:48

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