[Tex/LaTex] Changing the style with biblatex

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I'm still a LaTeX beginner. I'm using kile and KBibTeX on lubuntu. I try to use biblatex. I copied this from a help document into my preamble:

\usepackage[style=authortitle-icomp]{biblatex}

\usepackage[babel,german=guillemets]{csquotes}

\bibliography{Quellen}

"Quellen" is the name of my KBibTeX document.

It works like that even if after running BibTeX, LaTeX says

finished with exit code 2.

When I try to change the style e.g. to apalike by writing

\usepackage[style=apalike]{biblatex}

LaTeX says package 'apalike' not found\RequireBibliographyStyle{\blx@bbxfile}.

I already tried to download the apalike.sty and apalike.bst and put it the same folder as the LaTeX document, but it doesn't work.
I although checked all of the entries in the KBibTeX file. There is no error.

Best Answer

Well, there is kind of a mixing there.

If you want to use Bibtex and apalike style, it's enough with writing:

\bibliographystyle{apalike}
\bibliography{Quellen}

I would also suggest to use the natbib package along:

\usepackage{natbib}

However, if you want to use Biblatex, I recommend using Biber to handle your references.

You could take a look at this question for more information:

bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib

What to do to switch to biblatex?

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