Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Need to change the bibliography to another style

[PandaDragon]

Hi everyone,
I'm using this template http://www.latextemplates.com/template/ ... ral-thesis
I need to change it into the ACM bibliography style. I'm not good at program coding and already tried several failed attempts to change it. Please advise on what I need to add/delete/replace etc to get it to display in the ACM format. Thanks in advance!

[Johannes_B]

Remove style=authoryear
This will give you a numeric style. Is that close enough to what you want?

[PandaDragon]

Here is my coding phrase:
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{library.bib}
which yields this result:
[1] John R de Almeida et al. “Combined corticosteroid and antiviral treat- ment for Bell palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. In: JAMA 302.9 (2009), pp. 985–93. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1243.

I want it to read as this instead:
[#] LAST NAME, initials. Article title. Journal Name YEAR; page source.
[1] de Almeida JR et al. “Combined corticosteroid and antiviral treat- ment for Bell palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. In: JAMA 302.9 (2009), pp. 985–93. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1243.

Please advise. Thanks for your suggestion

[Johannes_B]

Would you min providing te bibiography entry that generates that output?

[PandaDragon]

I'm not a programmer so I don't know the code to generate that output. That's why I'm asking in this forum. I've only rearranged what I want it to read as a demonstration of what I need. I want it to read just like the ACM bibliography format as found here http://www.mackichan.com/products/shells/acm.pdf

I tried your previous suggestion but it didn't solve the problem. It replaced the the referencing to a numbered one, which is what I want. However, it didn't help to change the formatting last name and first name initials which is what I need. So can anyone offer a solution to this coding problem please?

Trying to define the bibliography style within this template with
\bibliographystyle=acm
[or just changing it to this command]
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=acm,natbib=true]{biblatex}

yields this error:
error style "acm" not found

I'm running on an Apple OS X 10.11.6; TexShop Version 3.77; BibDesk Version 1.6.9; using the standard Mac distribution

[Johannes_B]

You have a bibliography database, similar to example.bib (or literature.bib).
Copying the entry saves some typing time for the helpers.

[PandaDragon]

I don't quite understand what you're asking. The bibliography database isn't the problem. What I want and need is to change the output of the format.

Again, I'm not very good at coding, so I need to know if there is a bunch of custom script I need to add somewhere or edit from this template.

[Johannes_B]

The example database entry is needed to reproduce the output you want.

Of course, you can just as well use the older BibTeX system instead of modern biblatex.