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I am trying to use BibLaTeX with the Windy City style to produce Chicago author–date citations and a bibliography.

I have a TeX document:

%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode 
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}

\usepackage[reflist=true,style=windycity]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}


\begin{document}


\section{Scenario}


Here is a claim I am citing \parencite{latexcompanion1993}.


\printbibliography


\end{document}

And I have the following file saved as refs.bib in the same directory:

@article{einstein,
    author =       "Albert Einstein",
    title =        "{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. ({German})
        [{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]",
    journal =      "Annalen der Physik",
    volume =       "322",
    number =       "10",
    pages =        "891--921",
    year =         "1905",
    DOI =          "http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004"
}

@book{latexcompanion1993},
    author    = "Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin",
    title     = "The \LaTeX\ Companion",
    year      = "1993",
    publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
    address   = "Reading, Massachusetts"
}


@misc{knuthwebsite,
    author    = "Donald Knuth",
    title     = "Knuth: Computers and Typesetting",
    url       = "http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~{}uno/abcde.html"
}

I open the TeX document in TeXworks, press compile with the default settings, and this is the output:

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No bibliography is generated, and the citation just prints the identifier string instead of formatting it.

It seems the problem is that BibLaTeX cannot "find" refs.bib. How can I fix this?

Max
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  • Is it necessary to use Biber? What does Biber do that Biblatex doesn't do already? – Max Mar 18 '21 at 02:42
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    Yes it is. biber does all the sorting and processing of the .bib file, while biblatex formats everything. See bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib for more details on the differences. – Alan Munn Mar 18 '21 at 02:46
  • biblatex is just a LaTeX package that formats the bibliography data, the data itself still need to be read by Biber. Have a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852/35864 which explains the whole process for LaTeX and BibTeX (but you can just read Biber instead of BibTeX and the bug picture will still be true). – moewe Mar 18 '21 at 06:39

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