recently, I've moved my latex editor from the desktop version 'TexMaker' to the online version 'ShareLatex'. Then I've got a bibliography issue – that is, the 'Reference' section is totally missing at the end of the paper, as well as the missing citation. In my paper draft, I was simple using \bibliographystyle and \bibliography to import the style and print the 'Reference' section. Through the desktop 'TexMaker', I can compile it via 'BibTex' once; then compile it again via 'PDFLaTex'. Yet, 'ShareLatex' does not have 'BibTex' compiler. According to their documentation, it is recommended to use \usepackage{biblatex}, \addbibresource, and \printbibliography. But I cannot find a way to import an external bibliography style file. Has anyone encountered a similar issue ?
[Tex/LaTex] How to import an external bibliography style file if using ‘usepackage{biblatex}’ and PdfLatex compiler instead of BibTex compiler
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Your file runs properly with me, so there two possible explanations:
- As suggested by @barbara beeton you have problems with the "dash" unicode characters, see related post.
- You are not compiling the document correctly. As mentioned in the comments, run:
pdflatex file.tex
bibtex file.aux
pdflatex file.tex
pdflatex file.tex
And the output should look like this:
Best Answer
There seem to be two issues here.
Firstly,
biblatexcannot deal with.bstfiles; it uses its own system of.bbx,.cbxand.lbxfiles for style definitions. If you want to use.bstfiles you will have to resort to classical BibTeX. See for example Switching to biblatex: how to load custom elsarticle-harv.bst style, How to use custom bibstyle with biblatex and Biblatex induced headache: Bibliography bst style not found.Secondly, you seem to think that ShareLaTeX does not support BibTeX. As Bibliography management with bibtex and especially the example on that page demonstrate that fear is idle. ShareLaTeX can very well deal with BibTeX and automatically runs it once you press the recompile button.
In the screenshot below you can see BibTeX project happily working in ShareLaTeX (it is an adapted version of the example linked to above)
The page merely recommends using
biblatexbecause of its flexibility and localisation facilities. Indeed ShareLaTeX is also fully compatible withbiblatexwith both the Biber and BibTeX backend and automatically decides which to run.