BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ References not printed

[SaneAssasin]

Hello!

I want to write my next term paper using LaTeX, but referencing is preventing this from being a reality. I am running MiKTeX 2.9 and WinEdt 7.

A minimal working example:

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\documentclass[man]{apa6}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\addbibresource{bibliography}

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\affiliation{Affiliation}
\leftheader{Left Header}
\abstract{Abstract}
\keywords{Keywords}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
Body of the text.
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The bibliography.bib file is this one.

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@ARTICLE{flett_interaction_1999,
  author = {Flett, G L and Endler, N S and Fairlie, P},
  title = {The interaction model of anxiety and the threat of Quebec's separation from Canada},
  journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year = {1999},
  volume = {76},
  pages = {143--150},
  number = {1},
  month = jan,
}

I am running BibTeX by pressing "Ctrl + Shift + L", "Ctrl + Shift + B", then "Ctrl + Shift + L" twice. Then when I compile the document, it does not show a "References" sheet.

Thank you! I am absolutely in love with LaTeX's output, but this issue is preventing me from handing in these beautiful documents!

[Johannes_B]

Hi,

you are telling the biblatex package that Biber is used instead of BibTeX. Just run Biber on the file (this is also told you by a warning in your log file). I'm not sure how to do this with WinEdt, but taking a look at the preferences might help.

By the way, the name of your bibliography should also contain the ending (so it would be bibliography.bib).

And next time, please prepare a proper minimal working example.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Johannes

[cgnieder]

And next time, please prepare a proper minimal working example.

What do you have against the one provided in the question? Compared to many others this one is pretty perfect IMHO.

To the question: Although running Biber instead of BibTeX is definitely preferable with biblatex as it offers a lot more possibilities you can also say backend=bibtex. And just to repeat: \addbibresource needs the file name including the ending.


Regards

[Johannes_B]

@cgnieder: you are right, this one is pretty good. I can't remember, why I wrote that in this case.

[SaneAssasin]

And next time, please prepare a proper minimal working example.

What do have against the one provided in the question? Compared to many others this one is pretty perfect IMHO...

To the question: Although running biber instead of bibtex is definitely preferable with biblatex as it offers a lot more possibilities you can also say backend=bibtex. And just to repeat: \addbibresource needs the file name including the ending.


Regards

Thank you for the reply and thanks for clarifying that I had a correct minimal working example!

Okay, when I change the third line to

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 \usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

and run LaTeX by pressing Ctrl + Shift + L , I receive the message

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! Package biblatex Error: backend=biber required by style.

Okay, when I switched it to the original line:

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 \usepackage[style=apa,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,backend=biber]{biblatex}

, but don't know how to run Biber with Winedt. I downloaded the .exe file from Biber's site, but don't see what to do now!

Thanks for your help, by the way! I appreciate it a lot.

[cgnieder]

Well, if the style demands »biber« you'll have to use it (or change the style...). I'm not really familiar with Winedt but you might try out the command line and run

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biber whateveryoucalledyourfile

from there (if your file is called whateveryoucalledyourfile.tex). This should at least work even if it isn't comfortable.

How to tell Winedt to use »biber« I have no idea...

Regards

[SaneAssasin]

Well, if the style demands »biber« you'll have to use it (or change the style...). I'm not really familiar with Winedt but you might try out the command line and run

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biber whateveryoucalledyourfile

from there (if your file is called whateveryoucalledyourfile.tex). This should at least work even if it isn't comfortable.

How to tell Winedt to use »biber« I have no idea...

Regards

Hello!

I downloaded Biber and copied it into the file where the .tex file is. I ran LaTeX, and then went to the command line and typed in biber Example and receive the following error:

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INFO - This is Biber 1.5
INFO - Logfile is 'Example.blg'
INFO - Reading 'Example.bcf'
WARN - Warning: Found biblatex control file version 2.2, expected version 2.3
INFO - Using all citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'bibliography.bib' for section 0
INFO - Decoding LaTeX character macros into UTF-8
INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'bibliography.bib'
INFO - Overriding locale 'English_United States.1252' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nyt' keys
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'English_United States.1252'
INFO - Writing 'Example.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8'
INFO - Output to Example.bbl
INFO - WARNINGS: 1

I then updated Biblatex through the MiKTeX package manager, but receive the same message and when I run LaTeX two more times, and the PDFTexify, the sources still do not show in the document.

Any suggestions? I've attached the log files.

Think you could run the document in your Editor and see if you can get it to work? Perhaps that's where the error is.

Thank you again for helping!

[cgnieder]

I am not very familiar with MiKTeX as I seldom use it but I am quite sure there's no need to install biber manually with MiKTeX 2.9. In fact I just verified that with my installation. I think all you've got to do is use MiKTeX's package manager to get up to date and matching versions of biblatex and biber.

Regards

[Johannes_B]

As far as I know, the 64-bit version of MikTeX does not include biber, but I'm not sure. Try updating everything again. Delete the .aux, .bcf and .bbl files, this might help.

[SaneAssasin]

Thank you for all your help!

Johannes was correct in that 64-bit MiKTeX does not include Biber. I downloaded the .exe file and placed this inside MiKTeX's bin folder.

Then I installed the macro from here. Then to get the references to print,

1) Ctrl + Shift + L
2) Biber button above
3) Ctrl + Shift + L twice
4) Compile