BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ achemso-control in achemso

[roboa1983]

Hello:
I'm new in this community, though I have used latex for more than a year now. I normally use latex in the scientific community for manuscript writing and for presentations (with beamer).
I have a problem that have not been able to fix in more than a week.
I am using the achemso style (from the American Chemical Society) and when I use pdflatex (pdflatex bibtex pdlatex pdflatex) to run this and for some reason,
the achemso compilation does the following:
1) Write a acs-rootfile.bib file and contains:

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This is an auxiliary file used by the `achemso' bundle.
This file may safely be deleted. It will be recreated as required.
 
@Control{achemso-control,
  ctrl-use-title     =  "no",
  ctrl-etal-number   =  "15",
  ctrl-etal-truncate =  "no",
}

2) The rootfile.aux file has this as a first citation!
3) Therefore the output pdf file has a blank first citation and the citations in the rootfile start at 2.

Please, let me know if you have any ideas on how to remove this @Control from the first citation.
Thank you for your help.

[josephwright]

The special citation does not of itself cause a problem. However, you may have some kind of version clash. Can you post a minimal example which shows the issue, including \listfiles in the example. Also post the log file you get for the example.

[josephwright]

I should add that the "magic" citation idea is used by several packages (most notably biblatex): it's not unique to achemso.

[josephwright]

The solution to this is usually to check the version of achemso.bst that you have. Often, people download and install an updated achemso.cls, but don't also install the matching BibTeX file. The .bst file from version 2 of achemso is not compatible with the way version 3 of achemso.cls controls references. You need to update both parts to get things working!