BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ How to sort references automatically

[nasridine]

I am working with someone on a paper. He manually added all the references in the ref.tex file which looks like this:

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\begin{references}

\bibitem{lilie}
Breitenkamp,~M.; Henglein,~A.; Lilie,~J. {\it Ber. Bunsenges. Phys.~Chem.}
{\bf 1976}, {\bf 80}, 973.
 
\bibitem{nenoff}
Zhang,~Z.; Nenoff, T.M.; Huang,~J.; Berry,~D.T.; Provencio,~P..; 
{\it J.~Phys.~Chem.~C} {\bf 2009}, {\it 113}, 1155.

\bibitem{nanosyn}
Ershov,~B.G.; Janata,~E.; Henglein,~A. {\it J.~Phys.~Chem.} {\bf 1994},
{\bf 98}, 7619; Belloni,~J. {\it Catalysis Today} {\bf 2006}, {\it 113}, 141.

\bibitem{schuring2000}
Schuring, J.; Schulz, H.D.; Fischer, W.R.; Bottcher, J.; Duijnisveld, W.H.M. 
{\it Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y. } {\bf 2000}

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\end{reference}

If I want to make some change to the text and add some new references in the ref.tex. The order of the citation in the text is not right. It seems you have to manually put the references at the correct position, then the numbering will be correct. Is there an easy way to sort the references automatically, even if every time I add new references at the bottom?

By the way, after I edit the ref.tex, how do I update them in the article. So I did pdflatex to convert it to pdf, but all the newly added references appear as "?" in the article. How do I fix this?

[localghost]

It is essential that you always provide a full example that is compilable as provided [1]. Otherwise specific help is nearly impossible.

Automatic sorting of bibliography entries only works with BibTeX. You on the contrary try to typeset a bibliography manually. Furthermore it is unclear where this »references« environment comes from. It seems you did not test your code snippet and checked whether it's working at all.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Thorsten