[Tex/LaTex] How to set a default bib path where all the bib files can refer to it

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I have a problem when I have multiple bib files (i.e.,full.bib,article.bib,conf.bib,book.bib,me.bib; all the bib files are put into the bib folder), that is, every time I want to add bib files to my document, I will write as follows

\bibliography{bib/full,bib/article,bib/conf,bib/book,bib/me}

but it's annoying when I have many bib files.

My question is that,
should there be a simple way to write down thebibliography just as follows

 \bibliography{full,article,conf,book,me}

with a pre-defined path at the beginning of the document like

\bigliographypath{bib/}

Best Answer

(This is a solution for Overleaf since the user specifically asked to get the BIBINPUTS working on Overleaf in the comments.)

You can set the BIBINPUTS variable on your Overleaf project, by adding a file named latexmkrc with the following line in it:

$ENV{'BIBINPUTS'}='./bib//:' . $ENV{'BIBINPUTS'};

and then add some text to your .tex file to trigger a recompile.

The idea is similar to changing TEXINPUTS so that your project can access .sty, .bst, .cls etc in a folder: https://www.overleaf.com/help/212

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[Tex/LaTex] Blank bibliography page getting created

From the code you posted, it can be inferred that you are using a document class that uses chapters. Normally, \chapter and \chapter* internally issue a \cleardoublepage command to ensure that every chapter starts on an odd numbered page. If the last page before the bibliography was odd numbered, then the \chapter* used to typeset the bibliography heading will produce a blank page. To avoid this, you can locally redefine \cleardoublepage to behave as \clearpage, by using

\begingroup
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\bibliographystyle{amsalpha}
\bibliography{thesisref}
\endgroup

If you want to allow all chapters starting in any new page (whether it is odd or even), you can use the openany class option. Assuming the book class is used, then you can say:

\documentclass[openany]{book}

[Tex/LaTex] automatically update \addbibresource file path

UPDATE

In WinEdt 9.1 build 20150713 the bug described below has been solved.

Simply use

\addbibresource{References/chap1.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap2.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap3.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap4.bib}

and biber will compile your bibliographies correctly.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

The correct way is to use

\addbibresource{References/chap1.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap2.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap3.bib}
\addbibresource{References/chap4.bib}

But you are using WinEdt 9 and there is a bug in the compiler script for BibTeX and biber which prevents biber to run successfully when you redirect your auxiliary files to another folder.

To circumvent this (it will be fixed in the next release of WinEdt), open the file BibTeX.edt (it should be somewhere like C:\Program Files\WinEdt 9\Exec\TeX), then open the Options Interface and click on "Advanced Configuration".

Now click on the button "Create and Open Local Copy". A modifiable local copy of BibTeX.edt gets opened.

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Just after the line

  IfIStr("%$('%!9-Executable');","bibtex.exe","<>",!"LetReg(3);");

insert the lines

  IfIStr("%$('%!9-Executable');","biber.exe","=",>
    !|IfStr('%O','%P','<>',!`LetReg(3,'--input-directory "%P"');`);|);

Now save the file and the job is done.

Try recompiling your file and now WinEdt correctly runs biber on your bibliographies.