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Im getting this error, on a simple code, and i dont understand it.

\printbibliography[heading=none]

it shows up on this line.

It says:

You have placed an alignment tab character '&' in the wrong place. If you want to align something, you must write it inside an align environment such as \begin{align} … \end{align}, \begin{tabular} … \end{tabular}, etc. If you want to write an ampersand '&' in text, you must write \& instead."

\namepartgiven ...medelimb Schultz\bibnamedelimb &
                                                  \bibnamedelimb Nikolaj\bib...
l.254 \printbibliography[heading=none]

I can't figure out why you would want to use a tab mark
here. If you just want an ampersand, the remedy is
simple: Just type `I\&' now. But if some right brace
up above has ended a previous alignment prematurely,
you're probably due for more error messages, and you
might try typing `S' now just to see what is salvageable.
Werner
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    You need to separate authors with and in your .bib. That is, use Schultz and Nikolaj, not Schultz & Nikolaj. – Werner May 01 '20 at 17:10
  • I cant seem to find schultz or nikolaj in my .bib page. – Morten Mandsberg May 01 '20 at 17:13
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    Something is definitely wrong with a .bib entry containing Schultz and Nikolaj (possibly in another order). Regardless of the desired output, you must use and to separate several names in the .bib file input: author = {Sigfridsson, Emma and Ryde, Ulf}, not *author= {Sigfridsson, Emma & Ryde, Ulf},. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36396/35864 – moewe May 01 '20 at 17:13
  • I found it! thanks a lot! – Morten Mandsberg May 01 '20 at 17:15
  • The error is saying you that &, is not in a table (or a tabular-ĺike environments), where it is used as a cell separator. In any other places is wrong, and it should be typed \& except as separator of authors in .bib files, that as commented it should be always and even if the final result must be "penultimate-author & last-author", because that should not be specified on the reference source but choosing the right bibliographic style. – Fran May 01 '20 at 18:33

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