Fixing No \citation Commands Found Error in LaTeX

auxiliary-filesbibtexcitingerrors

I'm trying to compile myFile.tex, a program which draws on bibtex and biber

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{myRefs.bib}
...
\begin{document}
...By the Seuss theorem\textcite{firstRef}
...
\section{References}
\printbibliography 
\end{document}

Upon compiling, this gave me the following errors

I found no \citation commands---while reading file myFile.aux
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file myFile.aux
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file myFile.aux

I don't understand why this is happening, or what I have to do with myFile.aux. Can anyone explain this and how to get around it?

Best Answer

As mentioned in the comments, you should run biber to compile your bib file as you have used biber as the backend.

\usepackage[style=authoryear,backend=biber]{biblatex}

Here are the commands to compile your myFile.tex and your .bib files:

pdflatex myFile
biber myFile
pdflatex myFile

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[Tex/LaTex] Citing (author, journalabbr., year) needed

First thing to do is to add a field for the journal abbreviation to the article entrytype, journalabbr in the MWE. Therefore you need to declare a datamodel (an extra file; in the MWE I've used filecontents to simulate that) and you have to tell biblatex/biber to use it in the package options.

Then you have to modify the cite command, so it fits your needs. \citep from the authoryear-style (your citestyle) uses the \cite command. There you just have to add a switch, which checks if the field journalabbr is empty or not, and prints it out or not.

Last but not least you have to add the abbreviation fields to the entries.

MWE:

\begin{filecontents}{min.bib}
@article{boisson2003unexpected,
  title={Unexpected protein families including cell defense components feature in the N-myristoylome of a higher eukaryote},
  author={Boisson, B. and Giglione, Carmela and Meinnel, Thierry},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  journalabbr={JBC},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ASBMB}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{authorjabbryear.dbx}
\DeclareDatamodelFields[type=field,datatype=literal]{journalabbr}
\DeclareDatamodelEntryfields[article]{journalabbr}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[fontsize=11pt, paper=a4, ngerman, DIV=calc]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp,sortcites=true,sorting=nyt,isbn=false,natbib=true, citestyle=authoryear,bibstyle=authoryear,backend=biber,maxnames=1,maxcitenames=1,
,datamodel=authorjabbryear%added!
] {biblatex}

\DefineBibliographyStrings{ngerman}{ andothers = {{et\,al\adddot}} }

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%from authoryear.cbx
  \iffieldundef{shorthand}
    {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
       {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
        \setunit{\addspace}}
       {\printnames{labelname}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
     \iffieldundef{journalabbr}{}{%
        \printfield{journalabbr}%
        \setunit{\nameyeardelim}%
        }%
     \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
    {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}

\addbibresource{min.bib}

\begin{document}

\citep{boisson2003unexpected} 

How it should look like: 

(Boisson et al., JBC, 2003)

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Biblatex Citing – How to Cite from an Encyclopedia with Sub Voce

I suggest you use the special type @inreference that is specifically for dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

@inreference{BAR60,
  author    = {Foo Bar},
  title     = {Baz},
  year      = {1960},
  booktitle = {Encyclopaedia of Everything},
}

Then you can just do

\NewBibliographyString{subvoce}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
  subvoce = {s\adddot v\adddot},
}
\DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  \bibstring{subvoce}\addabbrvspace\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}}

to automatically add the "s.v." to the title.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}

\NewBibliographyString{subvoce}
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{
  subvoce = {s\adddot v\adddot},
}
\DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  \bibstring{subvoce}\addabbrvspace\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@inreference{BAR60,
  author    = {Foo Bar},
  title     = {Baz},
  year      = {1960},
  booktitle = {Encyclopaedia of Everything},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\cite{BAR60}
\printbibliography
\end {document}

If you want the 's.v.' to remain in lowercase at all times, you can sprinkle in a \midsentence

\DeclareFieldFormat[inreference]{title}{%
  \midsentence\bibstring{subvoce}\addabbrvspace\mkbibquote{#1\isdot}}

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