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I've finished my document and now I'm working on a perfect bibliography... I've used bibtex so far but it gives me some trouble as I need to change some stuff from English into German.

I think a way around that is to use the biber backend. This is working in an example document but not in my real document... the bibliography doesn't get printed out there....

some help here would be great as googeling hasn't helped me so far...the following example shows the problem. I think that this issue is caused by the IPCC citation...

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=3.6cm, right=2cm, top=3cm, bottom = 2cm]{geometry}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
%\usepackage{bibgerm}
%\usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes}


\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{literatur.bib}


\begin{document}


test something here \cite{IPCC-climareport}


\printbibliography


%\bibliographystyle{plaindin}
%\bibliographystyle{plain}
%\bibliographystyle{plaindin.bst}
%\bibliography{literatur.bib}


\end{document}

this is the literatur.bib file

@article{IPCC-climareport,
title = " Summary for Policymakers. ",
journal = "In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and  efforts  to  eradicate  poverty",
url = "\url{https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15_SPM_version_report_LR.pdf}",
pages = "4",
author = "Masson-Delmotte,  V.,  P.  Zhai,  H.-O.  Pörtner,  D.  Roberts,  J.  Skea,  P.R.  Shukla,  A.  Pirani,  W.  Moufouma-Okia,  C.  Péan,  R.  Pidcock,  S.  Connors,  J.B.R.  Matthews,  Y.  Chen,  X.  Zhou,  M.I.  Gomis,  E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)",
keywords = "special climate report"
}
learnPyt
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  • @Community as error it says "empty bibliography" – learnPyt Sep 06 '21 at 12:47
  • if you are getting errors from an earlier bibtex run you may need to delete the generated files (Overleaf has a clear cached files menu option) under view logs that will force it to do a clean latex biber latex latex run. – David Carlisle Sep 06 '21 at 13:01
  • Instead of \input{test1/firstPage} and then telling us the content of firstPage, it would be a better example to just have that text at that point. Do you still have the error in that case? Also, make sure to highlight your code and click {} when editing, so that it still looks like code. – Teepeemm Sep 06 '21 at 15:55
  • @Teepeemm changed! Sorry I havent thought about writing straight into main as I#M never doing this – learnPyt Sep 06 '21 at 16:03
  • See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36396/35864. Note that the url field should contain the raw URL, so there should be no \url{...} macro in that field. The type @article should only be used for articles that were published in a journal, this does not appear to be the case here. – moewe Sep 08 '21 at 13:11

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If you run pdflatex then biber, biber reports

ERROR - Name "Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor,"
 has too many commas, skipping entry 'IPCC-climareport'

(you will find the biber log in the overleaf logs menu)

commas are for separating name parts like Carlisle, David use and to separate authors.

David Carlisle
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  • using \and the document is now comipiling... there's a massive empty space in between the authors now though..

    is there any way to get the output as author1, author 2, ...

    atm it is: author 1 author 2 ...

    what I find interesting too is that using \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{literatur.bib}

    instead of biber could handle the commas...

     – learnPyt Sep 06 '21 at 16:08
  • @learnPyt it couldn't handle the commas it just treated it as a single author with a very weird surname – David Carlisle Sep 06 '21 at 16:09
  • biblatex has 10000 options and styles to get various layouts of author names and titles. You are better to ask a new question about that (there are people on site a lot better at biblatex than me:-) @learnPyt – David Carlisle Sep 06 '21 at 16:11
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    @learnPyt and not \and, sorry – David Carlisle Sep 07 '21 at 08:56