[Tex/LaTex] \bibliographystyle{apalike} invalid

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I am trying to do APA citation (Name, Year).

However, when I try to compile:

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

I get this error:

! Package biblatex Error: '\bibliographystyle' invalid.See the biblatex package documentation for explanation.Type H for immediate help…. \bibliographystyle{apalike}

Anyone know why?

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, margin=1.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{tgschola}% or any other font package you like
\usepackage{setspace}
\edef\restoreparindent{\parindent=\the\parindent\relax}
\usepackage{parskip}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\restoreparindent
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{pictures/}}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{bib}

\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\rhead{Team Frank}
\lhead{MINE 404}
\chead{Project Report}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Spend a whole night trying to figure this out with no success.

Best Answer

You are mixing commands from two different bibliography methods. The \bibliographystyle command cannot be used with biblatex, and is used with a different bibliography package such as natbib or apacite, or with no package at all.

biblatex uses a different method of styling the bibliography, and the style is specified in the options to the \usepackage{biblatex} command.

There are various ways to get an APA conforming bibliography style, both with biblatex and without it. The following question shows you two ways:

Summarizing, you can either:

  1. Remove the \bibliographystyle{apalike} from your document and instead use:

    \usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}

If you use this method, you should use biber to process the bibliography.

or

  1. Remove the \usepackage{biblatex} from your document, and instead use:

        \usepackage{apacite}
    \bibliographystyle{apacite}

or 

        \usepackage[natbibapa]{apacite}
        \bibliographystyle{apacite}

If you use this method, you should use bibtex to process the bibliography.

For more general information see also:

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