Biber is a {bibtex} replacement for {biblatex}. It is functionally a significant superset of BibTeX, allowing more customisation by the user of, e.g., sorting, label generation, inheritance, and data source stream manipulation. It also supports advanced auto-disambiguation of names and name lists.
87
votes
1answer
11k views
bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
I've heard of many different bibliography-related packages/platforms/?. What's the difference between the following, which is good for what tasks, advantages/disadvantages, which one is the most ...
19
votes
2answers
8k views
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 ...
17
votes
2answers
2k views
In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?
As in the title, I'd like to be able to select whether TeXShop uses biber or BibTeX in the document rather than using the command line or changing the default in the TeXShop preferences.
For TeX ...
4
votes
2answers
1k views
Engines of Tex-Editors and Biber/Biblatex
Today I detected that biblatex, biber or whatever is responsible for citations and bibliography does not work correctly on my tex-files. I can think of two reasons for it:
Maybe my engine-file (I am ...
28
votes
3answers
2k views
Bibliography tools that are compatible with biblatex and biber
I’m currently in the process of reconsidering how I do bibliography management. It seems to be most sensible to use biblatex with biber. I’d like to know what tools are available on which I can build ...
17
votes
2answers
2k views
Customising emacs to use biblatex-biber instead of bibtex
I use biblatex, but I still go through running bibtex on my .bib files, rather than biblatex-biber, which is/will be preferred. How do I arrange for C-c C-c to run the relevant biber command, rather ...
13
votes
2answers
2k views
Using Biber with latexmk
With version 4.22, latexmk claims to
[s]upport the use of biber (with the biblatex package) as an alternative to bibtex for generating bibliographies, with automatic determination of whether to ...
10
votes
3answers
8k views
Biblatex + Biber + Texmaker + MiKTeX
Will someone please help me to both configure Texmaker and use it so that I can use the backend=biber option with biblatex package. I am using MiKTeX 2.8 and Texmaker 3.1. Please do not simply tell me ...
16
votes
1answer
618 views
How to create multilingual (English, Japanese) bibliographies with biblatex, biber and polyglossia
I would like to update my bibtex file in a way that allows me to create multilingual bibliographies. Since I publish in English and Japanese, I will need this to work in a way that:
In an English ...
7
votes
1answer
3k views
BibLaTeX Biber in TeXnicCenter does not produce bibliography
I recently changed to backend=biber after some problems with encoding in bibtex8 ( Biblatex encoding ). Everything seemed to work fine until I added some references and updated the bibliography file. ...
13
votes
2answers
634 views
biblatex authoryear-comp and name aliases
Using the authoryear-comp style I often cite different authors having the same last name. The biblatex package options
backend=biber,style=authoryear-comp,firstinits=true,uniquename=init
eliminate ...
8
votes
1answer
211 views
Notes after bibliography entry with Biber and biblatex
I'm using biblatex with Biber as a backend. I need to add a one-sentence note, in bold, after a few of my references in the bibliography. These notes are not contained in my .bib file; they are ...
9
votes
2answers
2k views
Dummies Guide to Biber
I've spent a good deal of time searching the forum and couldn't find a user-friendly guide to citations with biber using TeXShop or TeXworks on a Mac. I'd like to successfully reproduce a slightly ...
7
votes
1answer
2k views
Setting up WinEdt 6.0 and MiKTeX to run biblatex and biber
There should be a simple solution to the following problem, but I have failed to find one.
I have a fresh installation of WinEdt 6.0 and MiKTeX 2.9. I usually use SumatraPDF for preview, using ...
4
votes
2answers
9k views
Biber gives “I found no \citation commands”. Is there a solution ?
Help me, please, to fix the work of biber. When I put in biblatex options backend=biber then during the compilation I get:
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2010)
The top-level auxiliary file: ...
15
votes
3answers
1k views
biblatex: multiple bibliographies categorised by different .bib files
biblatex supports multiple bibliographies by looking up the 1) entry type, 2) keyword, or 3) category.
This is all fine, but in the use case of primary sources and secondary sources:
1) the 'type' ...
11
votes
2answers
1k views
Error with percent sign in bib entry field when using biblatex/biber
I'm trying to use biblatex (v1.5a) with biber (v0.9.3) instead of BibTeX but I am having a problem with bib entries, where the abstract contains a percent sign. In that case, in the bbl file the ...
5
votes
1answer
732 views
Citation style in biblatex: (1) get rid of first names; (2) remove comma before year
I'm trying to use biblatex and biber so as to have access to @online, etc.
But I'm quite overwhelmed.
In-text citations used to just show the last names. Now they are including first names or ...
1
vote
2answers
704 views
Latexmk: makeglossaries, Biber and pdfLaTeX / Where to put latexmkrc?
I've got myself seriously confused with latexmk. I have been using latexmk on TeX Live 2011 and I have loved it for making my document with a ToC and references with Biber. I am trying to make it work ...
20
votes
3answers
2k views
Compatibility of bibtex and biblatex bibliography files?
In the answer to bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib the advantages and disadvantages of Biber vs. BibTeX (and of natbib vs. biblatex) were explained. However, one point was omitted: The question ...
9
votes
2answers
724 views
biblatex: Setting maxnames on individual entries
I'm using biblatex (with biber as backend). I use the global maxnames option to shorten author lists (with "et al."). However, I would like to create some exceptions to this rule for some specific ...
8
votes
2answers
3k views
Install Biber in MiKTeX on a 64-bit version of Windows
The question Biblatex + Biber + Texmaker + MiKTeX describe how to use Biber with MiKTeX. But on the 64-bit version of MiKTeX Biber isn't installed.
How it is possible to install Biber on a 64-bit ...
7
votes
1answer
3k views
Problem getting biber/biblatex/XeLaTeX/TeXworks working together
OK, here my situation: I'm writing a paper for my class, and I want to include a bilingual bibliography since some of my sources are in Korean and I want the bibliography to show the original Korean ...
5
votes
0answers
299 views
Biber typesetting fails [closed]
On MacOs X running updated mactex packages, when I compile my biber file I get this error:
data source /var/folders/yf/y69gwrx12kj2jtzrs78vg2vm0000gn/T/par-67696f6e61/cache- ...
5
votes
2answers
874 views
“Missing character” or “does not map to ascii” message with biblatex and biber
I started drafting a question here but then, through some further work, found a solution. I though it might be worth putting in what I found here for others.
The problem relates to using biber as a ...
4
votes
1answer
892 views
How to make LaTeXmk work with XeLaTeX and biber
I'm trying to make LaTeX make work with XeLaTeX and biber for my thesis. The document will have many cross references. What settings do I need to ensure it works correctly? My current settings for ...
8
votes
1answer
358 views
Show journal abbreviation in reference list with biblatex/biber
This question was previously asked by Yotam who got an answer from Andy Thomas saying he should edit the biber.conf file in order to use biber's regular expressions capacities.
I tried this with my ...
6
votes
2answers
79 views
Biblatex: 2 custom fields, only one is working
Following this question BibLaTeX/BibTeX custom field to show file link and Notes after bibliography entry with Biber and biblatex I get it to work (well, more or less). In the code below I defined a ...
6
votes
1answer
144 views
How to get a 1-click compilation of XeLaTeX with Biber using arara?
I want to use XeLaTeX as typesetting engine and Biber for my references. I want to have a 1-click-compilation setup, preferably in a GUI editor. I work on Windows, thus a solution for TeXworks or ...
6
votes
2answers
171 views
How to move the note field out and away from the main reference using biblatex?
I'm using biblatex to created a list of publications in an academic CV. I'd like to list my publications and outline my contribution to each publication after each listed publication.
My current idea ...
6
votes
2answers
245 views
Automatically indexing references by author and year
I'm writing a literature review, and would like to add indices for both authors and publication year (i.e., two separate indices). Now, I could manually enter the appropriate \index{} commands, but it ...
5
votes
2answers
123 views
Biblatex/biber keep cycling and not settle when using custom sort
I'm trying to do a custom sort: citation order -> year/month -> author -> title
I think I got it in the style in the code below. However, when I run it: pdflatex -> biber -> pdflatex -> pdflatex. ...
4
votes
1answer
3k views
Error message when using biber
Great site here. I have a question regarding Biblatex and Biber. My current .tex file structure looks like this in TeXworks:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{inputenc} ...
3
votes
1answer
72 views
maxnames in biber
I'm trying to set maxnames in my biber option, but it doesn't work.
I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong.
My MWE is:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,german]{scrartcl}
...
3
votes
2answers
362 views
Clean .bbl files with latexmk -C
I use TeXLive 2012 and compile with run
latexmk -pvc -pdf -quiet test.tex
later I clean the directory with
latexmk -C
But test.bbl remains. How can I help latexmk to find bbl files?
test.bbl ...
3
votes
1answer
597 views
Tex4ht, biblatex and biber: what is proper processing?
How to run htlatex with biblatex bibliography included? That's the simplest example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{libr.bib}
\begin{document}
...
2
votes
0answers
2k views
Biblatex with biber backend results in undefined control sequences but not with bibtex backend [closed]
I use Texmaker (verion 3.4.1) and MikTeX 2.9 (which has been installed one week ago). Texmaker is configured to use biber: I replaced "bibtex %.aux" by "biber %". If I run LaTeX, then the file ...
2
votes
1answer
709 views
“Cannot find file” error when running biber
I'm commuting to using the new biber/biblatex system of referencing. Previously I have been using bibtex as a backend and have tried converting to biber. I'm using MikTeX 2.9 under windows xp sp3.
I ...
