From biblatex's documentation, p. 94: \cite
and \Cite
print the citation without any additions such as parentheses.
Then why does the following code print "[1]."?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
author = {Author, A.},
year = {2001},
title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\cite{A01}.
\end{document}
(Biblatex: cite command to create numeric citation without parentheses? provides a solution, but I'm looking for the reason of this behaviour. Is it misconfiguration?)