Questions tagged [biber]
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.
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How do I get biblatex and biber to work with MikTex?
I am trying to use biblatex with backend=biber from MikTex and am getting error messages.
If I run with LuaLaTeX+makebib from the MikTex Typeset dropdown menu, I get clean output with no bibliography. ...
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Putting the season in the date of a journal in the reference list [closed]
I have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{ref.bib}
@article{Smi23,
author={John Smith},
title={Article Title},
date={2023-...
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biblatex: weird output
My biblatex gives weird output: for example, it writes "[Whi]" instead of ["Whittle"].
Furthermore, I would like to avoid writing the bibliography in the preamble, since the final ...
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Trouble with Texmaker and biblatex [duplicate]
I'm using Texmaker 5.1.3.
I'm trying to compile a document using an external file called references.bib as a bibliography.
These are my attempts:
Using LaTeX or PDFLaTeX: no bibliography appears on ...
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Verbatim date entry
I received a bibliography (docx) with the following entry that I’m trying to fit into LaTeX:
Bo Ming, Fengcheng suolu, presumably first published in late Qianlong era. Liaohai congshu, Shenyang: ...
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Biber tool mode: specify output field order in config file?
I often use biber’s tool mode to sort entries in a bibfile, following Using Bibtool to sort a bib file by types and keys alphabetically. I like to have the most salient fields of each entry listed ...
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need new cite-command: argument of \cite[#1] to be placed not after, but in the middle of shorttitle
I want to \cite[#1]{thebook} a book (with a shorthand) with numbered paragraphs not in the form shorthand, \pnfmt{#1}, but simply XEN~#1~\emph{TP}\,3, where the shorthand is XEN~\emph{TP}\,3 (with ...
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Remove https: from the doi
How can I remove the prefix https:// from the doi? Some of the doi entries in my database is DOI: 10.1080/15588742.2015 while others are https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.109.117093. I want to keep doi in ...
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Journal name not showing up with custom citation style when BibTeX field type is "journal"
I am currently trying (again) to implement a custom citation style which should end in a list of publications, and generally it works. My tex file is very simple:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
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Why exactly does Biber need Command Line Tools?
When I went to MacTeX 2023 and I ran Biber for the first time, TeXShop told me I had to install the Command Line Tools. I did and everything works without problems.
However, I have been wondering for ...
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Biber adding doi
main.text
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-angew, doi=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
\hypersetup{
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Biber installed via tlmgr, but not found on command
On Ubuntu 22.04, I have installed TexLive (actually, TinyTeX) and have installed biber and biblatex packages. Command tlmgr info biber returns
package: biber
category: Package
shortdesc: A ...
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"please (re)run biber on the file" in VS code?
I've looked over possible methods but the problem is still unsolved.
I followed the instruction that overleaf provides (but using VS code), I think key commands are all added:
% !TEX program = xelatex
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Biber/Biblatex mismatch after fresh installation of texlive
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, and I needed some more updated latex packages, so I manually installed texlive 2023 (after uninstalling the apt-get version, at least so I thought). I correctly set that up in ...
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Referencing with Harvard style using biber [duplicate]
I'm new to Harvard style. I've been trying to create a new LaTeX document for an article I'm writing. Unfortunately, I always get errors when compiling the file. The citations are not displayed, and ...
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Error with biber with MacTex 2023
I'm having issues with biber even using the simplest code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{fittizio,
author = {Paolo Polesana}...
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How do you disable en and em dash ligatures in a biblatex/biber bibliography?
I am trying to write an MLA conforming paper with LaTeX for a school assignment, but I have a very strict professor when it comes to bibliography formatting. Specifically, my issue is that BibLaTeX/...
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Add prenote argument in DeclareCiteCommand
I would like to edit a custom cite command to check whether or not a prenote is specified.
At the moment, it looks like this:
\DeclareCiteCommand{\MyCommand}
{
\usebibmacro{prenote} %
}
{
some ...
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Formatting issue bibliography using biblatex (chem-acs style)
This is my first question and I hope the MWE is working. As visible in the screenshot, the formatting for online sources using the chem-asc style (biblatex) does not work properly and I cannot figure ...
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Citing articles in languages different from that of the journal
Journals in languages other than the current lingua franca of science will sometimes publish articles in a language other than their main one. For example, “Normierte Ringe” by Israel Gelfand (on ...
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APA references with bibtex: some fields not working
I'm trying to reference some sheet music in a bibliography.
The work was composed by Mussorgsky in 1867, but re-written ("arranged") by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1886 and published by W. Bessel &...
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Biblatex: one document, multiple bibliographies built automatically from keywords. How to make references use the keyword as "label"?
I'm using Overleaf to write an article, and I have followed the official tutorial for having multiple bibliographies in the same document. This is working perfectly, just like on the official example ...
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Empty bibliography after new refsegment biblatex splitted by sections bibliographies
I want to create a custom article that will list various references at the end of each section. This reference list needs to be independent of each other although some cited articles may appear in ...
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An extra bibliography section for recommended lectures
I've been asked now to add a "Recommended Lectures" section after the actual bibliography for my thesis. So, regardless whether I'm citing a reference in text or not, I must discern if it is ...
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Why do I receive warnings after using biblatex?
First of all, I'm quite new to LaTex. I watched some tutorials but this is my first real document i want to create.
I wanted to add a bibliography to my document, so i did some googling around. But ...
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Undefined References even though .bib file is present in same directory [duplicate]
Whenever i am compiling my main.tex with ref.bib file in Texstudio it is not showing the references and telling Empty bibliography. The log is showing this
33: Citation 'Valiant1979CompletenessCI' on ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
I'm running a minimal, up-to-date TeX Live installation on Windows 11. I am trying to use biblatex and biber for bibliography management.
The problem I am experiencing is that I must run pdflatex ...
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bibliography doesn't work well [duplicate]
I have code as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=alphabetic,
sorting=ynt
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{References.bib}
\title{Bibliography management: \texttt{biblatex}...
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Error in VS-Code: found no \citation commands [duplicate]
I am writing my thesis and run it on LaTex on VS-Code on a macOS and all of sudden from today morning I keep receiving the following error:
I found no \citation commands.
I found no \bibdata command.
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Display DOI in DeclareCiteCommand
I would like to display DOI with \DeclareCiteCommand. I'm using \documentclass{report}.
I tried this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber, sorting=none]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{...
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Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography string 'presentedat' untranslated
Biber + babel doesn't translate presentedat in @inproceedings causing bad output in references.
I think the problem is because using @inproceedings but that was automatically generated by Zotero. ...
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Switch from Overleaf to VS-Code
I write my documents using Overleaf. Now I want to switch to VS code.
My document contains many tables (longtable) with a large number of references. Furthermore the document contains a glossary, many ...
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Issue with \else in "biblatex" [closed]
I am using a .zip for a PhD template, and it contains too many files. So when I am trying to cite a reference I find that my compiler "livetex" and I am using TeXStudio is having trouble ...
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BibLaTeX – Cite as "Author et al. (Conference abbrev - year)"
I’m trying to get biblatex (which I use with biber) to produce citations like follows when citing conference proceedings
Authors (CONF name abbreviation - date)
For example, this paper shourd get ...
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Author in one entry in bibliography not printed [duplicate]
In one certain entry of my bibliography the author is not printed, but just a '--'. In other entries there is no problem. What could be the reason.
This is the entry that causes trouble:
@article{...
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Reference and citation [duplicate]
I need a Reference style like this: Farhan, A. M. (2017): Effect of rotation on the propagation of waves in hollow poroelastic circular cylinder with magnetic field. Computers, Materials & ...
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How to integrate biblatex-chicago into this "awesome-cv" template?
I am using the "awesome-cv" template from here (which, judging by all the questions for how to modify/expand it, seems to have some issues). I want to add a bibliography to the included ...
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Input and biber
I think it's a trivial question, but I cannot find the answer elsewhere. I am using a file to include other files through \input. Everything works fine except from bibliography, which does not work ...
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Beamer theme metropolis does not allow different font size for fullcite
Consider this MWE:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{foobar,
author={Bar, Foo},
title={Yadda yadda},
journal={Journal of whatever},
year=2023,
volume=1}
\end{...
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BibTex error after trying Chicago style
I tried Chicago style citations by using the instructions available here (https://www.reed.edu/it/help/LaTeX/bibtexstyles.html)
So I passed to the biber engine, entered the commands indicated. However,...
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Any way to avoid execution of biber.exe from temp directory? OR is there any way to get a signature for biber.exe?
i can't use Biber from my work computer because the biber.exe, although installed in my programs directory, gets started in users/myname/appdata/local/temp folder. Because of that, it gets blocked by ...
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Biber cant find the needed .bcf file
Hello there i cant add my bibliography to my file. I am using Texlive and Texmaker. In texmaker i switched the setting from the configuration of bibtex to biber %. I also updated biber via shell ...
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BibLaTeX emits strange error messages [duplicate]
So I wrote this:
\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{foo.bib,bar.bib}
\begin{document}
Blah blah blah. \cite{source}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
And I get these ...
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Period instead of comma for proceedings biblatex
The punctuation before the year in a proceedings is a period.
The punctuation before the year in an article is a comma.
Is there some parameter/argument to pass to biblatex/biber to make this ...
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ibidtracker=true does not recognize all same literature
I am writing my dissertation with LaTeX and I have some problems with my references resp. with ibidtracker=true: I have thousands of footnotes and in ca. 50 cases, LaTeX is not able to set "ibid.&...
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BibLaTeX + Biber finds too many citekeys
I am using TeXstudio to build PDFLaTeX files with biblatex+biber as backend.
\usepackage[backend=biber,bibstyle=numeric,citestyle=numeric-comp,hyperref,sorting=none]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{...
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Biber can't find UTF-8 named files
It seems that biber is not able to deal with UTF-8 named files as in the following MWE:
\begin{filecontents}[force]{produção.bib}
@article{Kantorovich-1958,
author = {Leonid Kantorovich},
title =...
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Have the abstract not change order of references [duplicate]
I am finishing up my thesis and have added an abstract at the beginning of the document in which I want to reference a few key papers. So far, i've been using the biblatex package with the biber ...
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Change two lists of references
I start to write a work with special requirements and structure, which I can't change. I have several files, which are connected to each other. The main files are: "synopsis" and the most ...
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Sublime text changing from biber to bibtex upon error
I am using Sublime Text 3 with LatexTools and Texlive. If, after compiling with biber I get an error due to an undefined citation, the next compile runs automatically with bibtex instead, in which ...
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