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17 questions linked to/from Is there any advantage to using \addbibresource over \bibliography?
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biblatex in a nutshell (for beginners)
Is there a 'biblatex in a nutshell' guide out there?
I'd like if someone explained to me the essentials on how to use biblatex (what lines I have to write in my document, which files I have to have, ...
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What to do to switch to biblatex?
Because of the great answers posted around in the site, I'm finally considering to do the switch and move to biblatex. So, the question is what do I have to do?
To give the question some focus, ...
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Bibliographies from multiple .bib files
I would like to use multiple .bib files for my article, such as file1.bib, file2.bib.
However, I would like my references not to be separated (such as "Primary sources", "Secondary ...
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How to use biber
Simply put I want to know what steps I need to take to start biber with biblatex. I haven't been able to find any proper tutorials or guides showing how you go about using it instead of BibTeX.
What ...
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LaTeX and bibliography management tools
For my writing I am using MS Word and Zotero as bibliography manager. But now I think I am going to move to LaTeX on a Linux box. I just toyed with Texmaker to generate my documents and it works fine ...
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biblatex: Reverse numbering (i.e., count down)
I was wondering if it is possible to get the citation numbers to count down
[3] newest item
[2] item
[1] oldest item
in biblatex? I am sorting using either using sorting=none and entering in reverse ...
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How to change style in biblatex?
How can I use change style in biblatex?
I want to use a specific style, probably ACM or IEEE and I don't know how to change that.
Below is the current code:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
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Bibtex not running after upgrading Ubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10
I'm having problems with my latex installation on Ubuntu 13.10.
Have been using it successfully for a while on Ubuntu 13.04,
after I updated bibtex doesn't seem to work.
The error I get is:
This is ...
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BibTeX equivalent with CiteULike support?
There was recently a question about finding BibTeX formatted citations, which listed CiteULike. I would love to take the shortcut, and replace the BibTeX executable with cultex, which takes CiteULike ...
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Differences between \addbibresource and \bibliography with biblatex's ids field [closed]
What exactly does \addbibresource do that \bibliography does not? I am aware of the advantages mentioned here which concern, for example, the use of an optional argument and the possibility of ...
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biblatex: adding entries outside of main .bib file; possibly a 'multiple bibliographies' problem with filecontents package
Is there a way to include additional entries outside of the .bib file in the a bibliography for biblatex? For instance, I have a few web references (http) which I don't want to add in my general .bib ...
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Common bib file for several collaborators
I'm currently writing a few papers with several co-authors, and we are all using LaTeX. All of us have access to and use mendeley, so we have the same set of references in our respective local .bib ...
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Biber does not find bib file
I would like to set-up TeXstudio so that Biber is compiling my biblatex bibliography which I exported from Citavi. Unfortunately Biber always looks for a Bibtex formated *.bib file.
Example
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BibLaTeX doesn't print all the information I put in?
I use BibDesk to construct my .bib files. This program gives me some fields to put information, depending on the type of reference (book, article, etc.). However, LaTeX doesn't print all the ...
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Can somebody tell me what's wrong with this use of biblatex?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=numeric, citestyle=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{PTP.bib}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\begin{document}
\title{Progress Through ...
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