I am having trouble with my reference page in Beamer

Question

I am doing a Beamer presentation and my reference page won't load. Here is my code that I am using

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\bibliography{Master.bib}


\begin{frame}{References}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{frame}

and here is what my Master.bib looks like

@article{hafsteinsson2009porous,
Author = {Hafsteinsson, Haukur Elvar},
Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
Journal = {Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg},
Title = {Porous media in OpenFOAM},
Year = {2009}}

@article{domaingo2016semi,
Author = {Domaingo, Andreas and Langmayr, Daniel and Somogyi, Bence and Almbauer, Raimund},
Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
Journal = {Transport in Porous Media},
Number = {2},
Pages = {451--466},
Publisher = {Springer},
Title = {A Semi-implicit Treatment of Porous Media in Steady-State CFD},
Volume = {112},
Year = {2016}}

I have done everything that I could find which was not using the \bibliography{Master.bib} tag and use it directly into the reference frame but that still didn't work and I also changed around \bibliographystyle{•} but when I don't have it in I don't get any errors and it builds it but without any references on the page. I have done PDFLaTeX, BibTeX, PDFLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, as well and that didn't help with my issue. I also do have the Master.bib in the same directory as all of my .tex files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

biblatex has its own data backend processor, biber, which is the default when you don't specify anything:

\usepackage{biblatex}

hence, you have to compile your document with: pdflatex > biber > pdflatex > pdflatex, notice the biber instead of bibtex (this is the best solution).

If you use arara, it does it for you (the first 4 line here are necessary only if you use it):

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: biber
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\begin{filecontents}{Master.bib}
    @article{hafsteinsson2009porous,
        Author = {Hafsteinsson, Haukur Elvar},
        Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
        Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
        Journal = {Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg},
        Title = {Porous media in OpenFOAM},
        Year = {2009}}

    @article{domaingo2016semi,
        Author = {Domaingo, Andreas and Langmayr, Daniel and Somogyi, Bence and Almbauer, Raimund},
        Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
        Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
        Journal = {Transport in Porous Media},
        Number = {2},
        Pages = {451--466},
        Publisher = {Springer},
        Title = {A Semi-implicit Treatment of Porous Media in Steady-State CFD},
        Volume = {112},
        Year = {2016}}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{biblatex}

\bibliography{Master.bib}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{References}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{frame}
\end{document} 

The second best solution, if you want to use the bibtex backend processor, is to write:

\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

and compile with: pdflatex > bibtex > pdflatex > pdflatex (or, if you use arara, adding the first 4 lines you find here):

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: bibtex
% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\begin{filecontents}{Master.bib}
    @article{hafsteinsson2009porous,
        Author = {Hafsteinsson, Haukur Elvar},
        Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
        Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:13:42 +0000},
        Journal = {Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg},
        Title = {Porous media in OpenFOAM},
        Year = {2009}}

    @article{domaingo2016semi,
        Author = {Domaingo, Andreas and Langmayr, Daniel and Somogyi, Bence and Almbauer, Raimund},
        Date-Added = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
        Date-Modified = {2017-04-03 05:12:59 +0000},
        Journal = {Transport in Porous Media},
        Number = {2},
        Pages = {451--466},
        Publisher = {Springer},
        Title = {A Semi-implicit Treatment of Porous Media in Steady-State CFD},
        Volume = {112},
        Year = {2016}}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

\bibliography{Master.bib}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{References}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{frame}
\end{document}

However, in your case, the output is the same: