How to add list of publication in "thesis" class

Question

I am in the process of writing my thesis in LaTeX using TeXstudio. Past two days I am trying to resolve "list of publications" sections using various suggested methods such as,

1. Tried first and second answer in this But it was not working or was showing error.

2. And finally this

Here, in this case it is not showing any error and it normally compiled. But there is no list of publication printed. What could be the solution?

So far, I have tried compiling by deleting all auxiliary files. My bib file name is RSC.bib and I am trying to fetch my publications from this main reference file. I am using XeLaTeX compiler.

My MWE is follows:

  \documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 12pt]{thesis}
\begin{filecontents*}{RSC.bib}
@article{remanan2019preparation,
title="Preparation and characterization..",

author="S. {Remanan} and M. {Bose} and A. K. {Das} and N. C. {Das}",

journal="Journal of Applied Polymer Science",

volume="136",

number="12",

pages="47218",

notes="Sourced from Microsoft Academic - https://academic.microsoft.com/paper/2898623046",

year="2019",

keywords ="myPapers"

}
 \end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[natbib=true, style=numeric-comp, backend=bibtex8,defernumbers, maxnames=99]{biblatex}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\include{firstpage}
\include{frontmatter}
\include{abstract}
\cleardoublepage
\tableofcontents
\include{listofnotation}
\cleardoublepage
\listoftables
\listoffigures
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\input{intro}      %%Chapter 1%%
\cleardoublepage
\singlespacing
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\cleardoublepage
\newpage
\printbibliography
\appendix
\begin{refsection}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[keyword=myPapers,title={My papers}, prefixnumbers={P.}, heading=bibnumbered]
\end{refsection}
\end{document}

Answer 1

In a current version of biblatex labelprefix=P must be given as argument of the refcontext. Note that refcontexts are not fully supported by BibTeX, but with biblatex 3.14 the following will work.

\documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 12pt]{thesis}
\usepackage[natbib=true, style=numeric-comp, backend=bibtex8, defernumbers, maxnames=99]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{remanan2019preparation,
  title    = {Preparation and characterization},
  author   = {S. Remanan and M. Bose and A. K. Das and N. C. Das},
  journal  = {Journal of Applied Polymer Science},
  volume   = {136},
  number   = {12},
  pages    = {47218},
  notes    = {Sourced from Microsoft Academic - https://academic.microsoft.com/paper/2898623046},
  year     = {2019},
  keywords = {myPapers},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{remanan2019preparation}
\printbibliography
\appendix
\begin{refsection}
\nocite{*}
\newrefcontext[labelprefix=P]
\printbibliography[keyword=myPapers,title={My papers}, heading=bibnumbered]
\end{refsection}
\end{document}

Assuming the document is saved as mydoc.tex, I get a the expected output when I compile the document as follows

xelatex mydoc
bibtex mydoc
bibtex mydoc1-blx
xelatex mydoc
xelatex mydoc

In particular you need a different BibTeX run for each refsection you in your document. (Your document has two: The default refsection 0 that is present everywhere and a refsection 1 for your list of publications.)

Then I get

---

Things are much easier if you use the preferred Biber backend (backend=biber, instead of backend=bibtex8,) and Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations.

With

\documentclass[a4paper, twoside, 12pt]{thesis}
\usepackage[natbib=true, style=numeric-comp, backend=biber, defernumbers, maxnames=99]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{remanan2019preparation,
  title    = {Preparation and characterization},
  author   = {S. Remanan and M. Bose and A. K. Das and N. C. Das},
  journal  = {Journal of Applied Polymer Science},
  volume   = {136},
  number   = {12},
  pages    = {47218},
  notes    = {Sourced from Microsoft Academic - https://academic.microsoft.com/paper/2898623046},
  year     = {2019},
  keywords = {myPapers},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{remanan2019preparation}
\printbibliography
\appendix
\begin{refsection}
\nocite{*}
\newrefcontext[labelprefix=P]
\printbibliography[keyword=myPapers,title={My papers}, heading=bibnumbered]
\end{refsection}
\end{document}

it is enough to compile

xelatex mydoc
biber mydoc
xelatex mydoc
xelatex mydoc