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 can I make my .bib file to be correctly compiled into .pdf-file
My .bib-file is not compiled correctly into .pdf-file. Does anyone know how to fix that?
Linked crowded question of the whole project see Migration of thesis written in \documentclass{DissOnlineLatex} ...
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Using defbibsetentry with BibLaTex (Biber) and sorting ,,none'' doesn't actually sort by Text appearance
it's me again.
I just switched from using Natbib to BibLaTeX for my citation, using Biber, because I need a citation that looks like this[1a,b] (just in superscript).
And I have managed to do that by ...
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Changing the date field in biblatex with apa style
I am using biblatex to print my bibliography and am citing books where I need to specify the original date the book was published (same for other sources).
When the bibliography compiles, it puts the ...
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Print only first 5 articles in bibliography
Say I have a document with all my bibliographic references printed at the end, and stored in a .bib file with dozens of them.
I add this file with:
\addbibresource{references.bib}
And define the ...
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Remove extra vertical space introduced before bibliography sections
I have a document similar to the MWE below. I use LuaLaTeX (and biber) to build it. I am defining my bib file in the same document for convenience here.
What I find is that an extra undesired vertical ...
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Use different citation and bibliography styles in different parts of a document [duplicate]
How can I change the citation and bibliography style in Part B below to a numeric style while retaining the author year in Part A? I have looked at this question Biblatex: Two bibliographies with ...
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"Shackled to BibTeX and who cannot (yet) move to BibLaTeX". What is that supposed to mean?
I am reading the documentation for "Better BibTeX for Zotero".
In there there is written:
Zotero does all its work in UTF-8 Unicode, which is absolutely the right thing to do. Unfortunately,...
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Texstudio not compiling bibliography (biblatex, biber vs bibtex)
I am trying to use biblatex on TexStudio and it is simply not compiling the bibliography part at all when I use bibtex instead of biber for the "default bibliography tool." If at all ...
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Tex Studio, arxiv and Biber
I've been struggling to upload my article to arxiv that I created in TeX Studio, but it seems impossible since arxiv yields the error
Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file: (...
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Bibtex or biber will not compile after updating TexShop for macOS
I use TexShop for macOS to create/edit my thesis document. I use Zotero (v7.0.7) to produce the .bib file, the first line of the .tex file says % !BIB program = biber to make sure that compiled is ...
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References do not show in beamer presentation [duplicate]
Here is my main.tex file
\documentclass[usenames,dvipsnames,aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\title{Presentation}
\author{Me}
\...
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Can't get a simple biber/biblatex command to generate citations and a bibliography (on TeXstudio) [duplicate]
I'm using a simple setup. I am taking point from Overleaf's very simple example (in link "Open this example in Overleaf").
The problem is that while the files work fine and render as ...
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Microtype tracking inserts spaces in small caps in biblatex biber bibliography
I'm sorry if this is just me not understanding or doing something properly, but I seem to have uncovered a strange interaction between microtype's tracking feature and biblatex/babel. Please consider ...
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Biblatex bibliography fields ordering issue
I am facing a troubling problem while printing a bibliography entry for a book (@book) with a comment. My intention is to print the "note" field at the end, on a new line. However, the ...
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How to generate an APA style bibliography in latex using biblatex?
I have the babel and biblatex usepackages, \addbibresource{}, \bibliography{} commands but the bibliography isn't generated at the end of the document. I'm using texstudio. The code is as follows:
\...
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Biber does't work in VS code
I use VS code to run miktex. But I always encounter errors becuase of failing of biber.
I have searched online that for window 10, if I want to use biber to compile in cmd, I need to add "--...
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Bibliography input paths
We can manually modify and add to the input paths for .tex files with \def\input@path{} during runtime, so that we don't have to enter full paths when using \input. Can the same be done for biblatex/...
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How to remove specific author in biblatex
How do I remove all instances of a specific author from each bib entry? Looking through the biblatex documentation suggested using source maps, but the following attempt makes biber crash (with the ...
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How to make the name of the first author consistent with the rest in the bibliography?
I am using biblatex with biber backend:
\usepackage[backend=biber,
natbib=true,
style=authoryear,
maxcitenames=1,
mincitenames=1,
maxbibnames=99,
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Which journals require BibTeX instead of BibLaTeX/biber in 2024?
Most of what I’m seeing is a decade or more of age and I’m curious what the current state is for journals in 2024. Are most journals accepting BibLaTeX/biber or is it still a minority situation?
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biber sourcemapping - PCRE regexp with Unicode support
I need to match an Unicode character belonging to the “uppercase letter” category with \p{Lu}.
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@article{doe,
author = {Doe, John},
title = {Title of ...
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Bibmacro not fully printed?
I am trying to set up the legislation entry type, so it will print
Title (date or year). Author: Website-Title. url (last accessed: urldate).
I am using this piece of code
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How do I make my name appear bold in reference list? [duplicate]
I am wrting a report, using biblatex, and I would like my name to appear in bold every time it appears at the end in the list of references, wherever it appears (first position or not). How to do it?
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How do I change (n.d.) using \autocite to german in overleaf
So I am currently writing my Bachelor's thesis. Everything works quite well but now I ran into a problem using Biblatex.
Here is an example:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\...
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Section bibliography with multiple languages using biblatex with biber backend
Putting together my dissertation thesis with several published works, I would like to provide section-wise bibliographies and a collected bibliography at the end.
Since I am using APA as my citation ...
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Biber on Mac does not work
I am trying to get used to latex and used Biber for references. I used Texmaker and changed the default to Biber as well. I found here a simple code which I attached below. It works for the example ...
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Font in DOI / URL in references is off [duplicate]
im trying to get my bibliography into one style. The problem is, that DOI and URL have some weird font family and size, and i cant get that changed.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[...
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(short)journal-year citations rather than author-year, using natbib-style biblatex
I would sometimes like to be able to make my natbib citations look like Nature Comms (2023) rather than Smith et al (2023).
I'm willing to have the whole document work this way.
Multi-source citations ...
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Cannot cite the same bib entry twice in a row [duplicate]
I'm trying to use biblatex-chicago. For some reason it won't let me cite the same bib entry twice in a row:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,authordate]{biblatex-chicago}
\begin{...
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biblatex, biber and comments in bib files
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,citestyle=authoryear,backref]{biblatex}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\addbibresource{bibgraf.bib}
\begin{...
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biblatex with authoryear style not showing extradate [duplicate]
When compiling the main.tex file (see below), I am getting:
However, I am hoping to get Goodfellow, et al. (2014a) and Goodfellow, et al. (2014b). I have gone through the manual for biblatex and it ...
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Exclamation point inside brackets in bib entry prevents period
I have a bib entry with a typo at the end of its title. I indicate this with [sic!]. This prevents, however, a period from being printed after the title, cf. the MWE below. Without the exclamation ...
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biblatex with backend biber shows all names as well as et al., [duplicate]
I use these parameters to load the biblatex addon.
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear, maxcitenames=2]{biblatex}
then i change some rules to define my own citation style like
\addbibresource{...
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Biblatex makes substitutions for \textgamma that cause errors
The following example produces an error:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{textgreek}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@article{Author2015,
author = "Imogene Mirabell ...
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Biblatex does't print the magazine number
Biblatex does't print the magazine number in first referance.
How to fix it?
I'm using TeX Live 2023(Biber 2.19).
MWE:
% !TeX program = lualatex
% !TeX encoding = utf-8
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Use babel language selector in biblatex/biber URL
In an English document with occasional Thai words, I've been able to use babel's Thai language selector to good effect, including in citations, but not in URL citations (which are unicode-encoded ...
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How do I add an annotation for a reprinted work in bibliography?
I need to cite a chapter from a book which was reprinted in APA style. It is supposed to look like this (https://www.bibguru.com/g/apa-reprinted-book-citation/):
Author(s) of the chapter. (Year of ...
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Bibliography not showing up using biber 2.17 [duplicate]
I had written my bibliography and it was fine until yesterday. Yesterdday, I added a source then compiled in texstudio (biber 2.17, biblatex 3.17, ubuntu 22.04, default bibliography program in options ...
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Biblatex inline citations unintentionally bold? [duplicate]
For some reason all my inline citations using biblatex are bold independently of the style selected without redefining any citation commands. See below
(The example above was created using \paramcite ...
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Sorting cyrillic and latin names and titles in bibliography
With reference to this question, I wonder why the sorting process only applies to names and not to titles.
Here a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-comp]{...
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Using biber-ms instead of biber
I want to use the biber-ms and biblatex-ms packages. I have them installed via miktex.
I am not sure how to actually call on them instead of the original bibtex packages in my document...
I have:
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ERROR - Cannot find 'Podrozmaitosci_2.bcf'! INFO - ERRORS: 1
I can't find the solution for my TexMaker. I saved this document from the origin (using save as...) and It's the first compilation with the error. I don't know how I can solve it in my TexMaker.
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Unable to run biber with a recent version of TeX Live
When I run biber --help, I get the following error message:
$ biber --help
Number found where operator expected (Do you need to predeclare "POSIX::_exit"?) at /tmp/par-...
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All of a sudden every latex project I have will not print a bibliography [duplicate]
So something truly strange has happened to me today, I was working on a LaTex project (my text editor is VScode) when all of a sudden I compiled my project and it spit out the the following error:
{...
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LaTeX file not running in texmaker on Fedora (but fine on MacOS): Error : could not start the command : biber
I have been using MacOS, but recently, I decided to jump from MacOS to Linux running Fedora 40. LaTeX is installed on Fedora and I use texmaker on both operating systems to edit documents.
Today, I ...
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Citing two authors with & instead of et al
I would like biblatex to write Author1 & Buthor2 (2024) when I have a reference with exactly two authors. Currently it writes Author1 et al. (2024). It is important to me that this only happens if ...
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biblatex-chicago: incorrect short citation
The second/short footnote citation generated biblatex-chicago is formatted incorrectly. The following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\...
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Add translator info in cite command
I am trying to add the translator information into the cite command (I have already amended it for my needs to the bibliography itself).
IF the publication does not have an author or editor, the ...
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Don't print pagetotal for books/collections
I am trying to set up my config file, so that biblatex will not print pagetotal even for books. I would prefer to keep the information in my bib-file, so instead of removing pagetotal info there, I ...
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References under the same shortauthor
I want to make something like this, where references with same shortauthor but different shorttitle are ordered in this way:
this is a MWE, I'm using philosophy-verbose as bibstyle:
\documentclass[...
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