LaTeX forum ⇒ Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ PhD package biblatex Error: '\bibliographystyle' invalid Topic is solved

[Ramadan Babers]

Hi all I am a new user for latex.

I use PhD template which the ref. appear as:

Arnold, A. S. et al. (1998). “A Simple Extended-Cavity Diode Laser”. In: ReviewofScientificInstruments69.3,pp.1236–1239. URL:http://link. aip.org/link/?RSI/69/1236/1.

I need to use ref. style as:

[3] T. Alzahrani, K. Horadam, Community detection in bipartite networks: Algorithms and case studies, in: Complex Systems and Networks, Springer, 2016, pp. 25–50.

which use \bibliographystyle{elsarticle-num}

How I can modify the template to present the ref. as I need?

[Johannes_B]

You are not even telling us which template you are using?

[Ramadan Babers]

Thanks for reply.

I am using the following template:

http://www.latextemplates.com/template/ ... ral-thesis

[Johannes_B]

If you just want to have a numeric style, change authoryear to numeric.

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=numeric,natbib=true]{biblatex}

If you absolutely want to have that particular style, you have to use the old BibTeX workflow instead of the modern one as provided by the template.

[Ramadan Babers]

Thanks.
It is working.

[Ramadan Babers]

if I need the references appear as in IEEE
I add the line: \bibliographystyle{ieeetran}

but the below error appears!
Package biblatex Error: '\bibliographystyle' invalid. \bibliographystyle{ieeetran}

what I can do to solve this error?

[Johannes_B]

As i said, you have to either work with the new biblatex, or the old bibtex-system. You cannot mix them, but you are doing this right here.

You can also use biblatex-ieee.