BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ biblatex | Bibliography not printed

[boro]

Hi,

as this community has helped me a lot over the last couple of months, I now need specific advice for a (seemingly) trivial problem.

I've never organized my bibliography through biblatex, so wanting to start small I tried the following minimal example:

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textp ... latex.html

I basically copy/pasted it; yet it still won't work: the compiled PDF only shows the citation but does not create a bibliography.

This is what I did:

1. Installed biblatex through MikTeX Package Manager (MPM).
2. Followed their steps, created "refs.bib" and "test1.tex" in the same directory having copied their contents (see section Overview).
3. Yet it does not generate the bibliography (have compiled many times, both PDFLaTeX and BibTeX through MiKTeX. I also deleted temporary files etc.)

Is it possible that \bibliography{refs} does not find the .bib file despite them being in the same directory? Having struggled with that for three hours now, I'm totally confused.

[cgnieder]

Hi boro,

Welcom to the LaTeX community.

The information on the website you've linked is a little outdated. The MWE should read

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{biblatex} 
\addbibresource{refs.bib}% changed line
\begin{document} 
Hello\cite{KandR}
\printbibliography 
\end{document}

Although that's not what's causing you trouble. What's more important is that biblatex used to use bibtex as default backend but nowadays uses biber. I'm guessing that's what cases your troubles. These are your choices:

• Use \usepackage{biblatex} and compile

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  pdflatex test1.tex
  biber test1
  pdflatex test1.tex

• Use \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} and compile

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  pdflatex test1.tex
  biber test1
  pdflatex test1.tex

• Use \usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex} and compile

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  pdflatex test1.tex
  bibtex test1
  pdflatex test1.tex

Regards