references with number and names

Question

the problem that I have is that some references appears as numbers and some of them appears as author names. The problem is that I only want numbers. The .tex compiles without any error. I tried to edit the bib file but still the reference appears in names and numbers. I tried deleting the .blb file and compile again but nothing was changed. I tried to delete the .aux file and compile again but still it didn't correct anything. The bibliography file was created using BibDesk. I have upload an image to check it out.

\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{bib1.bib} 

Answer 1

Biblatex, unlike bibtex, will use the key in bold in the document, intead of the bold question marks, to show that the reference is not found.

Consider the following example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[sorting=none,style=numeric]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{bib1.bib}
@article{foo,
    author = {foo, h.},
    title = {some random title},
    journaltitle = {a journal},
    year = {2014},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{bib1.bib}

\begin{document}

some text \cite{foo} but also \cite{bar}.

\end{document}

It will produce the output

some text [1] but also [bar].

and in the logs, you should see something like:

./main.bbl:
Package biblatex Warning: The following entry could not be found
(biblatex) in the database:
(biblatex) bar
(biblatex) Please verify the spelling and rerun
(biblatex) LaTeX afterwards.