[Tex/LaTex] Printbibliography command not working, even though citations in-text are presented

biblatexbibliographiesinput

First of all, if I fail to provide the sufficient information for helping me, I am sorry for it. I do not ask questions here often.

I know this is a widely discussed matter, but I have tried to search the answer to my problem and I simply cannot find it.

The problem: I cannot print my bibliography with the \printbibliography command at the end of my document.

The difference between my problem and what I see in every other question is that there is [any number] instead of the bold citation key. For example, if the citation key is Williams2016, and this is my first citation, what I see is [1] and not Williams2016, which tells me that the citations are read correctly.

I believe that it might have something to do with the \input command. I am writing different chapters in different .tex files and using \input to place everything in the same document. I have the same bibliography code for another document where I did not place chapters in separate files and it works fine.

Can anyone help me out?

My document is as follows (what I believe is the relevant part). I'm using the MastersDoctoralThesis template available here https://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis

\documentclass[
11pt,
english, 
singlespacing,
parskip,
headsepline,
chapterinoneline, 
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}

\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=numeric,sorting=none]{biblatex} % Use the bibtex backend with the authoryear citation style (which resembles APA)
\bibliography{C:/Users/berna/Documents/Bibtex/Thesis.bib} % The filename of the bibliography

\begin{document}

\input{Chapters/Introduction}
\input{Chapters/Methods} 
\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Thanks to TorbjørnT. I was able to solve the issue. The problem was that I added a \end{document} in the end of my Methods.tex file.

Naturally, this was causing the document to end earlier than required, and the command \printbibliography wasn't being read.

If you are submitting your paper for MNRAS

If you are submitting a paper for MNRAS you should not be using biblatex. The mnras documentation mentions two ways to produce a bibliography

The manual way with thebibliography and
the automatic way with BibTeX and natbib.

biblatex and natbib are completely incompatible with each other (see bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib for a short comparison) and it is unlikely that publishers can accept biblatex submissions (see Biblatex: submitting to a journal). So biblatex is out of the question.

Of the two ways the automatic way with natbib and BibTeX seems to be strongly preferred (p. 7 of the MNRAS documentation)

This is implemented in LaTeX via the natbib package, which in turn is included via the usenatbib package option (see section 4), which should be used in all papers.

and

It is possible to enter references manually using the usual LaTeX commands, but we strongly encourage authors to use BibTeX instead.

So you should dump biblatex and use natbib as advised instead. That means you need to follow What to do to switch to biblatex? in reverse so that your document looks roughly like

\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn,usenatbib]{mnras}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
\cite{sigfridsson}

\bibliographystyle{mnras}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}

No mention of \addbibresource and \printbibliography can remain (the two are biblatex commands) instead you place \bibliography{<name of bib file without the .bib extension>} where you want the bibliography to appear.

You may be able to tell Zotero to prepare a .bib file for the BibTeX data model instead of biblatex. Even though the general structure of the file is the same for the two data models, there are subtle differences between best practices for biblatex and best practices for .bst files (note that while again the general structure of the .bib files should be the same for most .bst files there can be differences in the fields and types supported - some old styles don't have a url field while many new ones do). For the more common types @article, @book, @incollection it probably does not matter too much, but more fringe types may need special care.

If you are not planning on submitting your paper for MNRAS

If you are not planning to submit your document for the MNRAS you should probably not be using the mnras document class. This class is specifically tailored for MNRAS submissions. Publisher classes sometimes have idiosyncrasies and may be hard or impossible to customise (why should they be customisable after all? - they just need to enforce the house style and enable easy processing for the publisher).

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